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?

Alec Stapp

Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#18 0.007677 Founders Fund
#52 0.002328 Khosla Ventures
#422 0.000334 Initialized Capital
#499 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#582 0.000050 Accel
#628 0.000257 Village Global
#730 0.000262 Sutter Hill Ventures
#959 0.000162 Benchmark Capital
#994 0.000196 Homebrew
#1447 0.000003 Sequioa
#1769 0.000075 A16Z
#1969 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2101 0.000002 Bessemer
#2563 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2629 0.000002 Index Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#24 0.004296 Works in Progress
#53 0.002241 Progress Studies
#220 0.000721 Bismark Analysis
#251 0.000440 The Long Now Foundation
#274 0.000376 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#292 0.000379 Rationality
#463 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#500 0.000322 Social Epistemology
#512 0.000003 Fair Vote
#643 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#661 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#699 0.000003 Existential Risks
#760 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#781 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#807 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1007 0.000136 RadicalxChange
#1024 0.000003 350.org
#1120 0.000078 Effective Altruism
#1212 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2066 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2309 0.000047 Moderate Conservatism
#2374 0.000041 Persuasion Community
#2410 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3031 0.000037 Ecomodernists
#3212 0.000026 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3278 0.000020 Harper's Open Letter
#3389 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3416 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3976 0.000004 Anarachists
#4268 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4967 0.000002 EFF
#5293 0.000008 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#27 0.002808 Mercatus Center
#210 0.000740 Niskanen Center
#211 0.000643 Cato Institute
#520 0.000281 American Enterprise Institute
#520 0.000281 National Bureau of Economic Research
#621 0.000142 Adam Smith Institute
#947 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1006 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1205 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1417 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1843 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2472 0.000043 Hoover Institution
#2949 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3876 0.000030 Council on Foreign Relations
#3898 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4005 0.000007 Hudson Institute
#4544 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5054 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5509 0.000010 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5849 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#99 0.001214 Palladium Magazine
#110 0.000824 Ars Technica
#210 0.000740 Foreign Policy
#317 0.000344 Bloomberg Opinion
#728 0.000117 CNBC
#896 0.000003 The Information
#1060 0.000131 The Dispatch
#1322 0.000002 Newsmax
#1330 0.000002 OANN
#1437 0.000003 Stat News
#1683 0.000012 Reuters
#1749 0.000091 Wall Street Journal
#1822 0.000003 The Verge
#1870 0.000058 Financial Times
#1935 0.000011 Techcrunch
#2392 0.000003 The Economist
#2773 0.000044 Recode
#3161 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3972 0.000031 The Atlantic
#3972 0.000013 Washington Post
#4069 0.000003 Wired
#4401 0.000002 The Intercept
#4975 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5533 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6473 0.000003 VICE

system

#383 0.000680 Think Tanks
#855 0.000106 Reality-Based Community
#3994 0.000130 Baseline

Crypto

#407 0.000466 Public Goods Funding
#510 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#595 0.000254 Ethereum
#660 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#704 0.000003 Polkadot
#740 0.000142 Crypto Angels
#909 0.000149 Crypto VC
#988 0.000101 Crypto Infrastructure
#1091 0.000057 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2370 0.000020 Crypto Journalists
#2376 0.000012 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2844 0.000002 Cosmos
#3897 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#4687 0.000014 IDEO Founder Collective
#5586 0.000002 Crypto Investing

Science

#1078 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1223 0.000103 EconTwitter
#1422 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3244 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4914 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8057 0.000002 Biotech
#9985 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#8168 0.000013 Founders

Software Engineering

#644 0.000003 Rust
#1488 0.000002 Zig

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