Hi - this is superbly detailed analysis - the kind of thing that should be linked to in the FAQ page... I know for a fact that I vote too early!
You might want to add in a little conclusion at the end (if I've read it correctly) - for maximum curation rewards... vote at between 20-30 minutes!
Interesting comments below about the bots... which I guess means that profiting from manual curation is, in the future, going to be more of a challenge!
Thanks! This post was not really meant as a FAQ-level post and I expected readers that make it through the article to be aware of "vote at between 20-30 minutes" as a rule of thumb :)
The 3 links at the beginning of the post should give all necessary information for readers without this background, also summarized to FAQ-level, but additionally with a lot of details.
Actually this post was more meant to point out that within this window between 20-30 minutes it can make a big difference when you vote, but this strongly depends on your selection of posts, SP, VP, %, ....
Bots play an interesting role at the moment. I think they can generate quite some curation rewards on the short run, but I doubt that they can replace manual curation long term.
Cheers - I checked out your post because I was following a 'data analytics people trail', not because I was looking for curation tips, but hey that's useful to know, I'll check it out.
It's one of the downsides of steemit ATM that it doesn't really do the freeze frames of your graphs justice!
Great work though. I will check out those other 'basics' posts.