QuantiModo: A Platform to Crowdsource Clinical Research with Quantified Self Life-Tracking Data
Our goal is to abolish suffering and maximize gross national happiness using a data aggregation platform called QuantiModo. QuantiModo can help us start crowd-sourcing clinical research by collecting the data from all these underground experiments performed by the great citizen scientists on Longecity.
Without quantitative data, all we have is thousands of subjective forum posts. This information can't be aggregated and analyzed to gain greater insight into effectiveness rates for specific symptomatalogical and genetic profiles.
QuantiModo will be a web-based data aggregation, integration, visualization, and analysis engine bringing together data from various life tracking web and smartphone applications and devices. It will take advantage of the advent of new self-quantification technologies, facilitating citizen scientists to share their discoveries and improving lives around the world.
You can help to eradicate mental illness by facilitating observational studies on data gathered through self-experimentation. You conduct natural experiments every day, whether you realize it or not. You do this by changing your exercise habits, changing your sleep patterns, changing your diet, changing your drug or supplement consumption, changing your social interactions, changing your environmental stimuli, etc. The problem is that we aren't collecting any of the data from these experiments. Hence, billions of precious data points being lost every day.
We must collect this invaluable information and mine it for causal relationships. Once we discover the secrets to happiness, we may put an end to the devastation that is caused by mental illness.
