wow, hardcore metrics and info paulag. Interesting to see perspective of the spikes in SBD payouts at those times because that is scaling from the changes to steem price if I recall correctly, so it's a good way to look at how the idea of $1 SBD peg actually plays out despite the information being tailored to a specific tag.
number of posts seems to have steady increase over time but payout varies drastically based on market condition, I am actually surprised to not see a giant spike in activity when the value increases payouts for some surge of people jumping back in if they have been idle, or increasing their posting frequency.
A lot of insight can be derived from data like this, I will be interested to know what others make of it
I was expecting a larger peak in Dec myself, but lets see what the Jan data shows