Hi Asher,
I am currently interested in getting information about the most engaging accounts, which is different from the most engaged ones (that you shed some light on in your post). To basically see where the engagement is coming from, and put that together with where it is going to.
I am actually planning to include some similar stats into the STEMsocial distilled, from next (or next-to-next) week on-wards. I am interested in seeing, at the level of my community (so that I am sure engagement is a real engagement as I can check it with my eyes), who is acting as a true community member in the sense of taking care of others, and compare that onto who is getting engaged most (and may not even care).
That sounds good, will you be querying the blockchain directly or using HiveSQL?
I had a look at children (replies/comments) on posts since hive, the order of the list is the average number of children per post.
Let me know if I can be of any help, cheers.
I have my own python scripts using the Beem library developed by @holger80. I still need to finalise that but I was busy with writing a research paper on detector simulations (it is now finished so that I could have again time for other things).