Citizen octopus™

Every day, hundreds of millions of people, like us, post about their lives online; what they eat, the activities they enjoy, the work they do, and the health challenges they face. It’s a treasure trove of untapped health data, scattered across the digital world.Citizen Octopus is you and I - people joining together to harness this data and let AI find the patterns no one has seen before. This is data mining at scale, not health opinion or guesswork. Millions of real-world data points revealing correlations that traditional research may never uncover.Think of it like this: if 18th-century sailors had posted about sore gums without saying ‘scurvy,’ but mentioned craving limes, AI could connect the dots. Citizen Octopus aims to uncover and provide those kinds of health insights by analyzing data on a scale not possible until now.Our focus:• Food : What we eat and drink.
• Activities : How we move and spend our time.
• Occupations : The work we do and the environments we’re in.By mapping millions of observations across these categories, our AI may detect strong, actionable links between lifestyle and health. Links that can point science toward new ways to fight disease and improve well-being.Why now?Traditional health research is slow, expensive, and often too narrow. Digital life generates unprecedented amounts of lifestyle and health-related data every single day.The power of scale means that, with enough data, important and previously unknown connections will emerge, connections no single expert could guess.How you can help?Donate to help advance the Citizen Octopus project including plans for an opt-in analysis app.
Share this page with people passionate about health, science, or technology.As conceived, the app would allow volunteers to securely contribute their lifestyle data and receive aggregated insights in return.Your contribution today supports efforts to uncover patterns that may help fight disease and improve health for millions.