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I manually record it from the trending posts on the Steemit home page. I take the information from the top 100 highest earners and extrapolate the data into graphs. It's just meant to be a quick glance at the most popular trends for the day. I figure if I look at it over time it should yield some useful results.

It would be easier to write a script to automate the process, but I don't have the skills.