I suspect that you are going to really enjoy working on analysis in R once you get your feet wet. Thinking about these problems from a procedural point of view really throws certain aspects into sharp relief. I find that it really tests my assumptions about what I should be seeing and expectation versus what I am seeing and why I'm seeing those things.

Though you have to be careful with the "Alice votes for Bob all the time, who else votes for Bob all the time?" form of inquiry, because it is perfectly reasonable for human beings to act like that. Especially on Steemit, where providers of anything outside of talk about cryptocurrency in general and steem in particular are rare, it is very easy for real communities of people to end up largely voting for each other if they are interested in the same niche subject.

But that's okay, because you would notice that very quickly once you started pulling those clusters out. This is how we learn.