OP, this is good data to see, but I'm confused as to whether the sMerit is what's held by the merit sources or what the sources have distributed. I looked for the answer to that in your post but perhaps I'm missing something.
My dataset only presents total merit sources and total smerits allocated to all those sources per each 30 days.
You can observe it there:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources. For now, we have:
There are 131 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 21045 sMerit per 30 days
For your question, I do think @DdmrDdmr can give you an answer, but I don't know it will satisfy your curiousity or not. Because I believe he might only give you raw figures, and of course not exactly what you wanted.
He can give you total merits/ smerits earned, and distributed of each sources, but it is difficult to screen and differentiate between smerits get from earned merits and smerits get as sources from theymos.
Even DdmrDdmr can get it, he might not publicly disclose because core ideas of theymos is not give merit beggars more details to annoying begging merit sources.
Looks like Theymos hasn't been adding a lot of new merit sources in the past year--I sort of figured as much, since I hadn't seen that many applications and hadn't heard about new sources being added. But at least there are more now than there were last September, and since Meta hasn't been flooded with "how I earn meritz" threads lately, I'm assuming the situation isn't too bad. When newbies are constantly whining about how they're not earning merits, you know there aren't enough being circulated.
As I know of, theymos pay more attention on merit source application in local boards, recent months.
Might be good to overlay those graphs as well, but either way props for posting the data.
I actually made it with an initial OP, but there are huge gaps between to variables, meritsource and smerits, in hundreds and thousands, so combined plot looks not good.
Ok, fine!
Note:
- To make combined plot looks better, I created a new variable, meritsource100, that equals meritsource * 100