System and method for data gathering and visualization

A method for measuring the quality of data reporting in a given medical study, comprising:

• identifying and collecting data from published medical studies, of a plurality of published medical studies, associated with a pre-selected disease;
• categorizing collected data disclosed in each study of said published medical studies based on data elements disclosed in each study of the published medical studies;
• applying one or more user-specified data tag configurations to each study of the published medical studies;
• applying a time decay factor to data for each study of said published medical studies based upon study date of publication where the time decay factor is increased in proportion to the years since study date of publication;
• weighting tagged data based on a frequency of a given data element;
• removing study metadata that is a duplication of previously collected data from the published medical studies;
• applying a Q Factor algorithm to determine a central data tendency for each study of said published medical studies where a low time decay factor gives preference and greater weight to recent data elements resulting from updated study reporting as compared with older data elements from older reports;
• computing a geometrical closeness of a given metric to a study from said published medical studies;
• producing a visual representation of the geometrical closeness;
• and
• displaying the visual representation to a user.