I am pleased to announce that the analysis of the mid-2021 Monero transaction volume anomaly has now been published! This was a joint effort of isthmus, neptune, myself, jberman, and carrington.

nice article!

Clean, well-argued and interesting article. Thank you isthmus, neptune Rucknium[m] jberman[m] carrington[m]!

Seconded.

> <@rucknium:monero.social> I am pleased to announce that the analysis of the mid-2021 Monero transaction volume anomaly has now been published! This was a joint effort of isthmus, neptune, myself, jberman, and carrington.

> mitchellpkt.medium.com/fingerprinti…ero-transaction-volume-a19cbf41ce60

that was an awesome read! Thanks to all involved.

Is any of the R code available by any chance?

rupee: I can make it available within an hour or so. But to use the underlying data that it relies upon, we first need the permission of neptune since they provided the transformed data from the blockchain.

Most of the analysis was done in python by isthmus, however.

were the charts done in python?

I believe so. The data to produce this chart was produced by me using R, but I think the remainder of the charts and data manipulation to produce them was done in python. neptune did the initial work of forming up the key variables in SQL I believe, converting the blockchain data into something we could more easily use.

got it. I don't know python as well as R ;)

i always get excited when I think I see R outside of my own computer

rupee: I did it with the data.table package. The blockchain data is sort of hierarchical and therefore kind of tailor-made for data.table

love me some data.table

rupee[m]: You should see this, then: reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/commen…marine_fiber_optic_cable_network_oc

Cool, I scrolled past that on reddit the other day but didn't realize it was done in R. I played with the rayrender package a year ago or so. really neat

rupee: Are you recruitable? ;)

We will need more R programmers for this effort:

I want to be involved!

Come to #monero-recruitment:monero.social if you are not there already