Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Alan Cole

Alan Cole

@AlanMCole

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#41 0.002840 Works in Progress
#324 0.000491 Progress Studies
#480 0.000334 Social Epistemology
#875 0.000136 Rationality
#934 0.000097 Effective Altruism
#989 0.000126 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1533 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1551 0.000065 Environmental Journalists
#1580 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1635 0.000080 Moderate Conservatism
#1693 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1721 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1763 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1805 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1816 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1846 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2051 0.000049 The Long Now Foundation
#2069 0.000002 350.org
#2257 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2765 0.000025 Harper's Open Letter
#3139 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3187 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3548 0.000005 Anarachists
#3691 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3945 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4026 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4445 0.000021 Ecomodernists
#4822 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5488 0.000001 EFF
#5696 0.000009 Persuasion Community
#7207 0.000006 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7605 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8223 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#132 0.001149 Niskanen Center
#417 0.000314 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#431 0.000360 Mercatus Center
#601 0.000133 Cato Institute
#613 0.000235 American Enterprise Institute
#613 0.000235 National Bureau of Economic Research
#976 0.000088 Adam Smith Institute
#1378 0.000042 Eurasia Group
#1918 0.000077 Brookings
#1982 0.000081 Earth Institute
#1988 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2042 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2133 0.000068 Center for American Progress
#2237 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2467 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2953 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3938 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4539 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6355 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6368 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7170 0.000014 Council on Foreign Relations
#8628 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#121 0.000760 Ars Technica
#132 0.001149 Foreign Policy
#334 0.000407 The Dispatch
#392 0.000286 Palladium Magazine
#1324 0.000101 The Atlantic
#1759 0.000075 Bloomberg Opinion
#1923 0.000002 The Information
#1987 0.000001 OANN
#1988 0.000001 Newsmax
#2450 0.000002 Stat News
#2788 0.000002 The Verge
#2914 0.000043 Wall Street Journal
#3305 0.000017 Washington Post
#3318 0.000004 Reuters
#3404 0.000002 The Economist
#4004 0.000002 CNBC
#4079 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4853 0.000001 The Intercept
#4918 0.000002 Wired
#5287 0.000002 Financial Times
#5891 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6521 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7028 0.000005 The New York Post
#7399 0.000002 VICE
#7502 0.000002 Techcrunch
#9137 0.000001 Recode

system

#1010 0.000176 Think Tanks
#4880 0.000045 Baseline
#9104 0.000030 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1615 0.000076 EconTwitter
#2115 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2511 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4278 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5577 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8468 0.000001 Biotech

Venture Capital

#1560 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1618 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1955 0.000057 Khosla Ventures
#2055 0.000002 Accel
#2448 0.000002 Sequioa
#2716 0.000001 Bessemer
#2747 0.000020 Village Global
#2937 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3134 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3254 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3344 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3739 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4029 0.000001 Homebrew
#5068 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#1579 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1692 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1757 0.000002 Polkadot
#2293 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3278 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3373 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3410 0.000001 Cosmos
#3535 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4209 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5153 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#5373 0.000001 Ethereum
#5661 0.000007 Crypto Infrastructure
#5967 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6477 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective
#8002 0.000004 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#1700 0.000002 Rust
#2147 0.000001 Zig

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