Wow, wow, wow!  What else can I say? 2017 has been an awesome year for me here on Steemit.  Actually not even a year as I only joined Steemit in July and boy has it been a roller coaster ride.

To all of my followers, 1611 of you, thank you.  Thank you for your resteems.  Thank you for your votes, thank you for your comments.

To @stellabelle.  You have made my growth on Steemit happen. For those of you that do not know @stellabelle delegated 20K SP to me on the 28th October. This was then followed by @fulltimegeek also delegating me 20K SP on the 19th October.

Thank you so so much @fulltimegeek and @stellabelle.  It is people like you that will make Steemit succeed. It is people like you that give me faith in human kindness.  I wish you both a very merry Christmas and best fortune in 2018. 

Having this delegation has made me want to succeed and since receiving it, I have spent every spare hour writing posts, comments, voting and working behind the scenes helping other out.  Below, you will find data on my activity, both before delegation and after.  I hope you consider it used well.

I started on Steemit writing posts about Excel.  Before Steemit, that’s what I did, blogged about Excel and Power BI.  These posts were not doing too well and then I came across a post by  @arcange  and the Steemsql database. This is when things on Steemit began to change for me.  I now had a data source the Steemit community cared about.  So instead of blogging about Excel and Power BI, I used it to report on Steemit.

Now here on Steemit I have a community of Excel, PowerBI and Data enthusiastics. All interested in the same stuff as me.  A community I have helped to develop by giving access to online training courses for free, by setting up and managing a discord server, and running a weekly contest to reward the effort of those also analysing the Steemit Block chain data.

I am also an active and vested member of @Steemitbc, another community aimed at helping others succeed on steemit.  A big shout out to @rt365 for all the work and effort he has put into this community.

Before I present the data on my posts, I have two further communities to thank. I would like to thank @minnowsupport and whaleshares.  Both of which have help me in more than one way here on Steemit.

So now for the data – 2017 in review 

Posts and Comments

In total I have made 184 posts (185 with this one) and left 1833 comments for 719 different authors

Pre Delegation

 

In the 138 days on Steemit before I received the delegation, I wrote 134 posts and 1245 comments

Post Delegation

 

In the 54 days since received the delegation I have made 50 posts and left 588 comments on 281 different author’s posts and comments. 

The average number of comments left a day increase from 9 before delegation to 12 after delegation

Resteems

Resteems before Delegation

 

Resteems after delegation

 

137 resteems in 138 days pre delegation. Let’s just call it 1 resteem a day before delegation.  After delegation this increased to 1.4 resteems a day after delegation

Voting Data

Below are details of my voting before getting the delegation.  In total I made 9183 votes to 2676 different authors.  The major spikes in voting related to following minnowsupport trail and greatly obscures my curation as all other votes are manual.  Looking at the data approx. 7000 of these votes were not manual votes

Of the 9183 votes give 140 of these were self-votes.  However to get a more accurate comparison figure,  we can take my manual votes for the time frame to be 2183 and so the % of votes that were self-votes was 6.4%.

2183 votes over 138 day’s averages at 15.8 votes a day.

 

Because the auto voting distorts the graph, here is a zoom on of daily voting in Sept

 

Next are my details of voting after delegation

 

We can see I went on a little bit of a voting bender when I got the delegation.  I remember seeing it and going straight to the Introduction tag.  I really enjoyed it.

Over the 50 days since getting the delegation I have voted 1745 time for 672 different authors.  That is an average of 35 votes a day.  Of this I have self-voted 84 times.  This is 5% of my votes.

Other interesting growth data

 

Above is my follower growth taken from steemdb.com

Below is my estimated worth on Steemit taken from steemwhales.com

 

Finally, my wallet – awesome earnings in 192 days.  This is a Steemit success story.

 

Conclusion

I have had an awesome time on Steemit and I have made many new friends along the way.  Some joined Steemit way before I came along, some at the same time and some way after.  Everything we do on the blockchain can be check and tracked.  The data is there for you to look at yourself.

If it wasn’t for the support of my followers the success I have had would not be possible.  Happy Christmas to each and every one of you and best wishes for the New Year.

2018 is a new year, and I plan on working more on steemit to grow my account, my reputation and my SP.  You can read about some of my plans here

/@paulag/aligning-my-business-objectives-with-steemit-in-2018

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