Look who is ratting here!

Dotlan saves and serves all NPC, ship kill and sov change data, for every region, every day. For example here is the Fountain ratting data for 2013/01/01. You can manually download this page. For extracting the data from the mess it returns, I wrote a little program. Hanura H'arasch mass-downloaded for me all the data for June and July this year, all regions. You can use it too.

Let's see the nullsec toplists, by sov holder alliance and by region (million rats). Of course there is no guarantee that the owner of the sov ratted, but I doubt if many PL guys rat in Deklein:
Surprises after surprises. The first is how much Providence dwellers rat, despite their bad truesec. By the way the common belief of "better sec, more ratting" isn't really true. There is such correlation, but weak as the standard distribution is twice as big as the average (944, 1891), despite every point is the 2-months average rat count: Secondly, NPC-null is unused. Their rat kill per system per day is deep red, meaning way below the total nullsec average. The only exceptions are Serpentis and Mordus' Legion, but they have only a handful of systems. Maybe some space could be changed into conquerable. Thukker Tribe and ORE spaces are especially unused, first for having agents in highsec, second for having no rewards at all (ORE faction mining equipment is worse than T2).

Thirdly, HERO coalition members - despite being in huge numbers in relatively small space - barely use their systems. BRAVE and HONOR systems are deep in the red. This alone questions their war against Providence. Why take space if you already don't use yours? Maybe the action fitting the true needs of the members would be moving to NPC space.

Of course the elephant in the room is Goonswarm Federation ratting twice as much as their own renters. Their home region, Deklein sees nearly twice as much ratting as the second highest Branch - home of their worst PvP-er minion, FCON, who are the #5 ratters with deep green system usage. Killing more than 10% of the total null rats, the GSF corps pull several hundred billion ISK ratting tax every month. They are barely outperformed by all the renters of Pandemic Legion.

Below you can see the daily ratting results of total highsec and lowsec. At first, it's hard to not see that less and less people play EVE. Secondly, there is a clear weekly pattern, significantly more people play on the weekends than on the workdays, Saturdays being the peak (red arrows). Is nullsec similar? Well, the decrease is missing. It seems that the nullsec players are more stable, EVE is losing highsec and lowsec casuals. The weekly pattern is present here too. The title of the chart is "rest of nullsec", because the top 4 ratters are missing. By the way, this "rest of null" is shrinking. They killed 47% of the rats in June and 40% in July, despite the top four didn't claim more Sov in the summer.

B0T clearly has the weekly pattern, the rest can't really be seen from the large changes (Deployments? Team Security is in action?). So I made a calculation where every day was compared to the average of the 3 days before and after it, then calculated the difference of Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday. The bigger it is, the bigger the oscillation is: In lowsec, rest of null, Goon space and in B0T space people rat less on workdays, which means they have a job or school. In PBLRD and especially N3 space, nolife play or botting is dominant. It seems the Goons are telling the truth that the little Goon with his ratting ship is out in Deklein and not the botters. Well, better for us, since hunting bots is harder as they warp out instantly when a neutral enters local.

PS: these carriers won't increase the Deklein ratting count.