this throws off the entire dataset.
I disagree. It may throw off comparisons between accounts used as exchanges for buying and selling, but I'm not trying to make conclusions about any such comparisons.
There is no such thing as putting in or taking out of the blockchain (other than burn I suppose). All that can be done is to transfer between accounts.
Yes, I understand this, but exchange accounts clearly do have special meaning and are even listed in some accounts like Vessel. I think that meaning is important enough to highlight and people do "deposit" or "withdraw" from exchanges all the time for all blockchains. Just because the blockchain itself didn't burn or create tokens doesn't change the meaning of the interaction as commonly understood.
IMO, if people hold money on exchanges, they don't own the cryptocurrency any more. I see this as RULE #1. If they move to an exchange and then back off an exchange to a different account, the data would accurately show that as one withdrawal and one deposit.
Maybe it is just a matter of the blocktrades accounts issue, or maybe something else, I don't know.
Well, if it's something specific leading to a problem, I'll happily make improvements.
Without knowing the exact flow, it's hard to make your input actionable. The data, as far as I know, does represent the sum of the daily net USD value of transactions to and from known exchange accounts. Any conclusions beyond that are up to others to figure out.
Okay, we disagree then. IMO when there is $40 million of slop it throws off most meaningful interpretations here. Yes we can say that such and such account sent or received $X worth of tokens to 'known' exchanges, but we can't really say how that compares with other accounts or the totals. If said account interacted with the blocktrades-related accounts (and/or other unidentified exchange accounts) in some manner we don't understand, it may be that the $X going to 'known' exchanges is very, very different from the amount going to actual (known and unknown) exchanges.
There is such a thing as error bounds, and the error bounds seem to be at least $40 million in magnitude. That is simply enormous relative to the flows going on here.
i would agree with that. Where we may disagree is how much additional interpretation is necessary to reach any sort of meaningful conclusions is required, or if it is even possible.
It may in fact not be actionable. The Steem blockchain has a degree of transparency but as we have seen from the results, being your best effort and I'm sure a sincere one, not passing basic sanity checks, it is not clear there is sufficient transparency to reach meaningful conclusions. Or perhaps if some additional mysteries can be untangled the gap can be narrowed.