***I've been busy in my spare time the last few days working on [Steem Ocean](http://steemocean.com) to make it more useful and powerful as a research tool for Steemians. I've just made live the latest changes  and a Re-index has been completed.. Let's see what's changed...***

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For those who [missed my launch post on Steemit](https://steemit.com/steemtool/@ura-soul/new-steem-service-introducing-steemocean-com-home-of-my-vote-ranking-algorithm-see-who-helps-others-who-self-votes-and-how-you), Steam Ocean is the new website I have created to provide useful tools and data to Steem users about a variety of topics and the first service I have added is an implementation of the [Vote Ranking Algorithm](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@ura-soul/steem-improvement-a-generosity-rank-algorithm-a-method-of-increasing-post-quality-that-promotes-a-reduction-of-payout-pool) I described a few weeks ago. 

The idea is to show who is actively directing the rewards pool with their upvotes, who self-votes a lot and other related info. Currently you can check out the top 200 in the Rank table, plus search for individual users and view all of their votes, plus the vote values.

#### Recent Changes
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I have taken the 'proof of concept' version that I announced a few days ago and extended it to include the following additions:

- The Vote Rank/Index is now calculated to place more value on a lack of self-voting than it was before, plus less value on the overall financial value of the votes for each user. This means that non-whale size users stand more chance of getting good ranking scores. Since the ranking system is intended to show voting behaviours and intentions more than just pure financial power, this makes sense - however, I will continue to improve the algorithm as we continue and as I receive feedback.

- The Indexing process has been configured to be ready to run automatically and now uses voting data from a 1 week period, rather than 1 day as was the case previously. So all votes made between 1 week from the time of indexing through to a further 1 week earlier will be counted in the indexing process. The current index includes 99803 users!

- I have added over 100 accounts that are bots or large/organised groups who will be excluded from the rankings to avoid skewing the results unfairly. If you know of accounts to add or of ones that shouldn't be in the list but are, then let me know.

- The main rank list is now sortable and is displayed a bit more usefully.

#### Changes Yet To Come
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I have quite a long list of useful things to add when I get time, but the next ones I will add in the coming days will be:

- Set the indexing to run once or twice a day automatically. The process currently takes about 4 hours of processing to complete, so if once a day is enough then I'll just use that to save electricity and bandwidth.

- Make the Individual user report page sortable.

- Upgrade the main ranking page to allow it to display all users in the index, rather than just the top 200. Results will be searchable/filterable and broken up into pages. This will allow some pretty useful data analysis.

I'll be adding graphs and other fun things in later updates too.. Stay tuned!

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

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