IAmADatapoint.org
Are you? (...a datapoint?) (... .org???)
This site is the brain child of a neurobiologist / data scientist who decided to spend the severance from his last gig (doing PTSD research) seeing how well ChatGPT could substitute for actual web development skills. (And enjoying some time off with his two-year old).
The idea behind it came from working in this field for the last eight years. In that time, I've seen so many resources poured into building these amazingly sophisticated biological datasets, in hopes of developing biomarkers to improve the treatment of disease. And if the goal is to help people with lupus, measuring proteins in the blood makes sense; it's conceivable one might get a strong enough signal from a reasonably sized dataset there. But for mental / behavioral health, what you really need is to collect longitudinal data first, to account for how people's mental health changes over time. And you will need to collect a lot of it, because it's noisy - there aren't particularly great ways to "quantify" mental health.
My thought, and the idea I'm testing by setting up this site, is that we should really be able to crowd-source this effort. We should be able to make it fun and interesting to share this data - to see how you compare, and/or to give your data to a good cause.
So yeah, if you took the baseline survey - awesome, you've helped build this thing that might help people some day. If you want to answer more questions - even better (thats the more interesting stuff). And by all means check back in occasionally - I'll update with weird / interesting findings as the data comes in. (Hopefully every month or so.)
The idea behind it came from working in this field for the last eight years. In that time, I've seen so many resources poured into building these amazingly sophisticated biological datasets, in hopes of developing biomarkers to improve the treatment of disease. And if the goal is to help people with lupus, measuring proteins in the blood makes sense; it's conceivable one might get a strong enough signal from a reasonably sized dataset there. But for mental / behavioral health, what you really need is to collect longitudinal data first, to account for how people's mental health changes over time. And you will need to collect a lot of it, because it's noisy - there aren't particularly great ways to "quantify" mental health.
My thought, and the idea I'm testing by setting up this site, is that we should really be able to crowd-source this effort. We should be able to make it fun and interesting to share this data - to see how you compare, and/or to give your data to a good cause.
So yeah, if you took the baseline survey - awesome, you've helped build this thing that might help people some day. If you want to answer more questions - even better (thats the more interesting stuff). And by all means check back in occasionally - I'll update with weird / interesting findings as the data comes in. (Hopefully every month or so.)