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A couple of weeks ago, @jacobgadikian requested for a Blurt dashboard. From what I know, that task is still open and comes with a 10,000 BLURT reward. ;)

Anyway, moving to the subject of this post. When I was still active on another platform, one of the things I did there was analyze data. Some of my works there were:

1. Scaling the Utopian Bot Feasibility Study - Steemit Business Intelligence
2. [Utopian Stats] Analyzing Utopian Moderation Time - Blockchain Business Intelligence
3. [Utopian Stats] Analyzing Utopian Translation Moderation - Blockchain Business Intelligence

I enjoyed doing these analyses. As such I'd like to dig into BLURT's data and see a bigger picture of where it's at.

1. Approach

One of the issues I encountered when I pursued this interest was the availability of a query-able database. As such, the first step was to create such a DB.

The second was to come up with a plan. I believe in the saying "if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail." Or as one of my mentors, Dr. Daniel Razon, best said it:

The third was to set guidelines. I came up with two:

1. Historical - I needed to see data that will give me a picture of where BLURT came from and where BLURT currently is
2. Availability - I needed data that will be available to me any time - not one I needed to generate from a spreadsheet

With these three in place, I proceeded to the analysis proper.

2. Analysis

From the data, I saw that the bulk of transactions were votes and comments^[1]. Let's look at the data.

^{[1] In blockchain language, posts are handled as comment transactions with their parent_author attribute set to blank. Here's a sample transaction.}

2.1. Total Transactions by Type

Based on this table, total comments were 109880 followed by votes with 102586.

These data^[2] included all operations (excluding virtual ones) from July 4th (which was the day that the first block was produced).

^{[Trivia] The first block post was this one by @ericet.}

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In the following chart, you'll see why comments exceeded votes.

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Yes, on July 4 to 9, the chain was spammed by chickens (around 80000 of them). More than half of the total comment transactions in the table above!

But moving past those dates, we get a better and more accurate picture of BLURT's growth.

2.1.1. Comments History

Here's the data as of block 2250803. The top stacked bars on the chart are post comments. The bottom ones are root posts.

^{[3] Data as of block number 2250803}

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2.1.2. Votes History

And then lastly, let's look at the up-vote history.

^{[4] Data as of block number 2252457}

3. Conclusion

The effort required to gather and extract these data were more than I expected. But generating this for the community (and of course the post author reward :D) was well worth it.

I wanted the data I presented above speak for itself, but to emphasize its meaning there's growth in BLURT.

As the mentor of my mentor practices, back-up what you say with evidence.

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