Short description: To create a comprehensive overview of the current state of all things data in the Polkadot ecosystem. Funding includes the research, a Github repo, and a Website.
Hi everyone. This is Tommi, aka Alice und Bob. You might know me from my YouTube channel Alice und Bob, where I educate on the edge of edutainment and technology within Polkadot, or from publicly talking about DeFi in Polkadot (and specifically Mangata Finance, where I lead Growth) or from my occasional tweets on the bird app.
Early last year I did my taxes and started building Subscrape, a Python scraper for Substrate chain, to help me in the process. Over time, things became more serious and I started building Polkalytics, a Google-scale analytics service for Polkadot. I have built an indexer for Polkadot that writes the complete chain into Google BigQuery and later derives additional tasks to create account reports for the purpose of filing taxes.
During my work, I discovered that there are A LOT of data-related projects in Polkadot, it's just hard to find them at first glance. I had great conversations with people from the Parity Data Team, Apexti, Subwallet, and Apillon, and think that all the people working on data in the ecosystem deserve to be much better connected so that we can make everyone's life easier.
Therefore this submission is a proposal to create a Github repository that contains a survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem and an accompanying website. A complete overview of everything that exists in terms of data in Polkadot.
In preparation for this proposal I opened a discussion and had conversations with the Parity data team, a Polkadot Wiki maintainer and a member from the Subwallet team. There were two primary requests: To publish the work as structured data and to publish the work as website. Therefore I have decided to follow both approaches, disseminate the data in a repo with structured data and then publish a website that embeds the structured data (which will also work as a proof of concept)
I am still open to any feedback and will work to integrate it if it is in line with the intention of this proposal.
Polkadot Treasury Proposal - A Survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem
A companion video for this proposal can be found here.
Best,
Tommi