You could probe for unannounced channels and publish their funding transactions and channel point. That would be a "value add" in terms of estimating true usage of the network.

nullcount

Verifiable data points like node count, public channel count, and public capacity.

Anything else used to "build a better model" is not verifiable, so it arguably makes the model worse.

bitcoin

LNBIG routed 12.4 BTC yesterday... how does that extrapolate to network volume?

andyleroy

Verifiable data points like node count, public channel count, and public capacity.

Anything else used to "build a better model" is not verifiable, so it arguably makes the model worse.