Would it be possible to have a crawler take all of this information and cross-reference merits to each day of the week?
That's actually very easy to do from theymos' data:
Monday 9430 (10.63%)
Tuesday 10060 (11.34%)
Wednesday 10942 (12.33%)
Thursday 22816 (25.72%)
Friday 14446 (16.28%)
Saturday 11063 (12.47%)
Sunday 9946 (11.21%)
Total: 88703Thursday
seems to be a good day, but the Merit system was
introduced on a Thursday. The large amount sent on Thursdays could very well be from the first day (I didn't check this further).
Total number of merits given out by each rank. Let's see who utilizes merits the most.
This will take a bit longer.
Total number of merits given out across each board.
Ideally,
https://bitcointalk.org/ should just show that on the main page. But I'll add it to my list.