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?

Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#75 0.002282 RAND Corporation
#104 0.001103 Earth Institute
#238 0.000442 Council on Foreign Relations
#241 0.000760 Atlantic Council
#245 0.000200 Eurasia Group
#282 0.000451 Urban Institute
#337 0.000379 Brookings
#472 0.000173 Hudson Institute
#623 0.000107 Heritage Foundation
#745 0.000005 Belfer Center
#762 0.000176 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#792 0.000186 American Enterprise Institute
#792 0.000186 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1235 0.000021 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1486 0.000103 Center for American Progress
#1622 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1768 0.000021 Berggruen Institute
#2029 0.000040 Niskanen Center
#2045 0.000074 Mercatus Center
#2464 0.000042 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#3342 0.000029 Hoover Institution
#5961 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute

Venture Capital

#126 0.001061 Homebrew
#230 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#321 0.000005 Founders Fund
#774 0.000005 Accel
#919 0.000171 Benchmark Capital
#1062 0.000137 A16Z
#1180 0.000005 Sequioa
#1739 0.000005 Y Combinator
#1845 0.000003 Bessemer
#1873 0.000060 Khosla Ventures
#2272 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2340 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#2533 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2736 0.000040 Initialized Capital
#3890 0.000003 Village Global

Journalism

#108 0.000791 New Yorker
#141 0.000777 The New York Post
#150 0.000685 OANN
#368 0.000373 The Dispatch
#370 0.000319 Washington Post
#413 0.000287 Ars Technica
#496 0.000248 The Atlantic
#501 0.000246 The Daily Beast
#563 0.000244 Recode
#638 0.000005 The Information
#848 0.000192 The Los Angeles Times
#869 0.000142 BuzzFeed
#887 0.000050 Reuters
#938 0.000179 Wall Street Journal
#1046 0.000003 Newsmax
#1168 0.000005 Stat News
#1481 0.000118 The New York Times
#1586 0.000005 The Verge
#1816 0.000073 Bloomberg Opinion
#1937 0.000010 Techcrunch
#1973 0.000017 CNBC
#2029 0.000040 Foreign Policy
#2100 0.000005 The Economist
#2893 0.000041 The Intercept
#3867 0.000005 Wired
#3896 0.000006 Financial Times
#4865 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#6099 0.000005 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#190 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#235 0.000672 Heterodox Academy
#240 0.000005 Fair Vote
#374 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#390 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#424 0.000269 Persuasion Community
#427 0.000005 Existential Risks
#500 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#521 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#541 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#576 0.000128 Harper's Open Letter
#759 0.000005 350.org
#875 0.000178 Moderate Conservatism
#934 0.000178 Climate Solutions
#949 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#995 0.000162 Social Epistemology
#1616 0.000083 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1845 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#2011 0.000051 The Long Now Foundation
#2374 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2545 0.000027 Degrowth
#2875 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#2883 0.000039 Progress Studies
#3130 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3366 0.000033 EFF
#3599 0.000029 Ecomodernists
#3611 0.000003 Works in Progress
#3786 0.000019 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4044 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4051 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4421 0.000003 Anarachists
#6510 0.000005 Rationality
#7820 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

system

#770 0.000349 Think Tanks
#1076 0.000099 Reality-Based Community
#2375 0.000138 Baseline

Science

#817 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1021 0.000168 Epidemiology Journalism
#1133 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#1756 0.000057 Biotech
#2068 0.000054 EconTwitter
#2849 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#4019 0.000028 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#1504 0.000089 Founders

Crypto

#237 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#402 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#435 0.000005 Polkadot
#1419 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1517 0.000074 IDEO Founder Collective
#2428 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2582 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2621 0.000003 Cosmos
#2825 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3157 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3965 0.000003 Ethereum
#4303 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4980 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#7261 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure
#8905 0.000003 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#372 0.000005 Rust
#1212 0.000003 Zig

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