The methods/systems described herein facilitate large-scale data
collection and aggregation. One exemplary system that facilitates
large-scale reporting of health-related data comprises a data collection
component, a database and an aggregation component. The data collection
component can collect health-related data on a large-scale from a
non-selected population. The database can store at least some of the
health-related data. The aggregation component can facilitate
automatically ascertaining at least one pattern from the health-related
data at least in part by applying one or more statistical, data-mining or
machine-learning techniques to the database. One exemplary method of
extracting health observations from information obtained on a macro-scale
comprises receiving information about a plurality of self-selected
subjects, pooling the information, mining the pooled information at least
in part by employing a data-mining algorithm to infer one or more health
observations from the pooled information, and monetizing the one or more
health observations.