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Hello, Steemians! 

As I very recently alluded to, I want to do some Analysis in order to build some skills that I will be soon using day in day out. With all the controversy recently about people abusing the reward pool upvoting their own, sometimes inane comments, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if Randowhale is used in the same way. 

So, Here's my crude methodology:

1. Go to the @randowhale Transfers page.
2. Grab all the data available there.
3. Exclude any rewards that have been claimed, or transfers out from randowhale to the randowhale fund.
4. Compare the user who sent the transfer and the URL
5. Count the times a user voted on their own post.
6. Present the data here. 

<h2>The data set I have considered contains 4629 uses of randowhale over a period of approximately four days. Of this, 4,229 Uses of randowhale for self voting. </h2>

<h1>91.35% of the Surveyed data was a self upvote!</h1>

Then, through the power of PivotTables, I can quickly run reporting on the available data to see who has used @randowhale the most to upvote their own content. 

<H2>Self Upvoters via Randowhale - Top 25</H2>

| User           | Self Votes | % of Total Self-Votes |
|----------------|------------|-----------------------|
| warn-a-brutha  | 322        | 7.61%                 |
| sikklel        | 154        | 3.64%                 |
| sepracore      | 122        | 2.88%                 |
| thecgbros      | 84         | 1.99%                 |
| sunnypictures  | 70         | 1.66%                 |
| cryptopassion  | 51         | 1.21%                 |
| musclenerd     | 49         | 1.16%                 |
| gwapology      | 43         | 1.02%                 |
| arthestically  | 39         | 0.92%                 |
| sandrino       | 37         | 0.87%                 |
| bhightech      | 37         | 0.87%                 |
| ehujra         | 36         | 0.85%                 |
| radioremix     | 33         | 0.78%                 |
| elysiian       | 32         | 0.76%                 |
| rkrijgsman     | 28         | 0.66%                 |
| anton-kostroma | 23         | 0.54%                 |
| cyberblock     | 23         | 0.54%                 |
| mxzn           | 22         | 0.52%                 |
| inkedandsexy   | 21         | 0.50%                 |
| digitalis      | 21         | 0.50%                 |
| jwolf          | 20         | 0.47%                 |
| wolo           | 19         | 0.45%                 |
| isjw84         | 19         | 0.45%                 |
| zakariashikder | 18         | 0.43%                 |
| enazwahsdarb   | 18         | 0.43%                 |
| healthyrecipe  | 18         | 0.43%                 |
| cinemasins     | 18         | 0.43%                 |
| dickdeepdog    | 18         | 0.43%                 |

In four days time, I am going to rerun this report, and for the community and authors; this is what I would love to see:

- A transformation in the way in which randowhale is used, with:
- A lower percentage of self upvotes in proportion to randowhale's total voting output. 
 - An increase in people using randowhale to upvote the content of others (when your own upvote isn't enough!)

I am aware that @randowhale doesn't do all the voting, however it is the one that recieves all the SBD / Steem for the vote to happen. I may also crunch the data on booster. 

Special shout outs to the top users of randowhale to upvote the content of others:

| User           | Other Votes | % of Total |
|----------------|-------------|------------|
| noboxes        | 26          | 6.50%      |
| alexvan        | 14          | 3.50%      |
| btcvenom       | 13          | 3.25%      |
| miketr         | 10          | 2.50%      |
| chiefmappster  | 10          | 2.50%      |
| jack8831       | 9           | 2.25%      |
| saffisara      | 8           | 2.00%      |
| ezblog         | 8           | 2.00%      |
| overkillcoin   | 7           | 1.75%      |
| mathworksheets | 6           | 1.50%      |
| twirble        | 6           | 1.50%      |
| enazwahsdarb   | 6           | 1.50%      |
| aaronmda       | 6           | 1.50%      |
| karenmckersie  | 5           | 1.25%      |
| jdbry          | 5           | 1.25%      |
| dandesign86    | 4           | 1.00%      |
| benjust123     | 4           | 1.00%      |
| underground    | 4           | 1.00%      |
| ebejammin      | 4           | 1.00%      |
| stackin        | 4           | 1.00%      |
| binarie        | 4           | 1.00%      |
| carterx7       | 4           | 1.00%      |
| acwood         | 4           | 1.00%      |
| kralizec       | 4           | 1.00%      |

Steem on!