Recently stumbled over this blog by Ben Sigman, analyzing data of the EOS blockchain, and the figures he present look rather promising:
https://medium.com/@bensig/90-days-in-eos-by-the-numbers-1c504f42059d
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*7wyck-3j4whXGrjB4EVz8A.png
According to these figures, there have been recently over 100k unique account transactions, which would signify a recent surge in usage, from the figures i had seen 2 weeks ante:
https://trybe.one/eos-state-of-onboarding-february-7/
He uses a Hyperion tool provided by @EOSRio, unfortunately this tool is not available in public yet :-(
I'd love to compare figures!