oh, I am sure there will be many statistics. Probably so many that we do not even know what we should read from it :-)
In any case, they will publish the hashrates, how many coins have already been mined, how much electricity has been produced and consumed, and so on. I love statistics and I'm really looking forward to it
Yea, sure, is very necessary to have like a progress report, that's like a hot selling point of every project, probably such report can be done quarterly or annually, it will be a negative blow if a project fails to take down statistical data when they commence, these are the things that investors, potential investors and partners will love to see in a project