This is a weekly overview post of the Analysis category at @utopian-io. The report aims to provide insight into the topics covered, the scores provided, staff picks (if any), and a look at how the current week has fared against recent weeks gone by.

Any other work taking place and my personal thoughts in relation to the category will also be included.

If you have any suggestions for additional information that could be included in this report, please comment below.

This report covers the previous 2 weeks of contributions to the Analysis category.

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Previous reports

2018

43, 44,45-46, 47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53.

2019

1, 2, 3, 4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10.

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Analysis contributions summary

Week 11: March 14th - 20th (inclusive)

• 1 Staff Pick
• 2 contribution, 2 scored, 2 authors
• An average score for the week of 86.5
• An average of 27 comments per contribution

Week 12: March 21st - 27th (inclusive)

• 1 contribution, 1 scored, 1 author
• An average score for the week of 69
• An average of 5 comments per contribution

Contributions

Week 11

Contributor	URL	Score	Comments
blockchainstudio	Witness of the people...	96	31
abh12345	Steem: Claimed Account Activity	77	23

Week 12

Contributor	URL	Score	Comments
dalz	eSteem activities analysis	69	17

The last couple of weeks in the Analysis category have been very quiet, with only 3 contributions to report in the last 14 days. With the influx of new open source projects over the past couple of months, this is somewhat surprising but it assumed that holidays and the relatively low price of STEEM have been a factor.

Week 11 saw a staff pick given to the contribution provided by 'blockchainstudio', which I believe to be their most in-depth contribution to date. Collating and processing witness and witness proxy data is a time-consuming and detailed task. It is also difficult to present and explain in a straight-forward manner. The analysis covers multiple angles with regards to Witness rankings and who's voting for each witness, using various criteria, and presents these findings superbly.

The chart presenting the 'turn out' of each class of account was particularly interesting:

Small fish < 500 SP is still small unfortunately even if they vote :( However, the voting power of the users < 5K who do not vote is actually greater than freedom.

The reviewer commented:

A key conclusion and one which should spark hope that 'my vote doesn't matter' is not true! There are possibilities that some of these accounts, and the 5-50k ones are steemit inc staff, or alt. accounts of users who do not want to give any clues as to who they are connected with. However, I still think there are enough of these accounts to make waves if they were active in witness voting.

The second contribution in week 11 was my own. Whilst discovering some points of interest with regards to the activity of Claimed Accounts, and in particular the use of accounts claimed by the 'fundition' account, the work did not reach the standard I had hoped.

The reviewer noted:

... I'm surprised by the comment rate of fundition-created accounts. Do you have any idea on the reasons there?

The short answer being 'no', and there is scope for more work in this area.

The single contribution in week 12 by 'dalz' focused on the activities of 'eSteem', and covered a variety of metrics spanning the last year or so. The analyst noted a recent upswing in activities, and detailing this with additional charts 'zoomed in' to these changed could have provided further insight to the rate of change.

The reviewer stated:

The presentations are a good guide to activity, but are quite high level, and perhaps a more focused/detailed look at recent months could have highlighted the beginning of a new trend a little better.

Overall, the category continues to provide solid work, but is currently lacking in numbers.

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Analysis and visual reporting

The aim of this section is to represent the current weeks activity along with a recent set of data. The current data span covers the previous 26 weeks.

Weekly Average Score and number of Contributions

An average score of 86.5 in week 11 is well over the 26 week average of 72.9, but the single contribution in week 12 fell a little short of the average. Both week 11 and 12 fell short of the weekly contribution average of 3.2.

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Contributor Totals and Average Score

The chart above enforces the excellent standard of contributions to the category - quality not quantity :)

Six contributors hold average contribution scores above 80 over the past 4 months of data analysis.

_{Contributions that did not receive a score are not included in the charts above.}

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Review Totals by Reviewer (Scored/ Not scored)

Two reviewers assessed all 88 contributions that received a score in the past 26 weeks. 'crokkon' has reviewed over 71% of all contributions to the category. Six contributions have not been scored during this period.

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Other items

The funding campaign for Utopian Colony continues!

Utopian-io is currently running a funding campaign on Indiegogo and has recently announced that this campaign for the development of Utopian Colony is now also running in tandem on Fundition.

The fully open source platform is due for release in Q3-2019.

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The Analysis team is available for contact in the utopian-io discord, and also via our blogs. We would like to be able to give every contribution the opportunity to be scored and welcome conversation from potential, or existing contributors that have an idea of a piece of work they are thinking about submitting.

utopian-io Discord: https://discord.gg/6T97um
Analysis team: 'crokkon', 'abh12345'

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That's all for this week, thank you for your time.

Asher