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?

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

@BostonJoan

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#105 0.001191 Homebrew
#1386 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1445 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1883 0.000002 Accel
#2280 0.000002 Sequioa
#2777 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2978 0.000001 Bessemer
#3371 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3517 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3595 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3979 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5142 0.000001 Village Global
#5329 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6397 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#9187 0.000006 A16Z

Culture and Political Economy

#131 0.000972 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#195 0.000615 EFF
#771 0.000115 Anarachists
#931 0.000097 Effective Altruism
#1357 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1404 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1547 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1577 0.000085 Black Lives Matter
#1588 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1631 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1645 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1672 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1771 0.000055 RadicalxChange
#1772 0.000058 Persuasion Community
#1896 0.000002 350.org
#2083 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2247 0.000059 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2893 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3189 0.000024 The Long Now Foundation
#3426 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3455 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4123 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4175 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4273 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4591 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5405 0.000006 Progress Studies
#7631 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7854 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8474 0.000001 Rationality
#8549 0.000001 Degrowth
#9506 0.000004 Harper's Open Letter

Think Tanks

#245 0.000732 Atlantic Council
#374 0.000279 Urban Institute
#734 0.000103 Berggruen Institute
#1815 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1834 0.000081 Brookings
#1871 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2295 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2742 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2953 0.000041 Council on Foreign Relations
#3281 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5693 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6572 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7833 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8090 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8273 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8359 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Journalism

#198 0.000513 Ars Technica
#463 0.000424 Wired
#492 0.000406 Financial Times
#942 0.000149 Recode
#943 0.000091 The Daily Beast
#1000 0.000097 Palladium Magazine
#1127 0.000082 The Verge
#1287 0.000087 BuzzFeed
#1369 0.000098 The Atlantic
#1587 0.000050 Washington Post
#1744 0.000097 The New York Times
#1750 0.000002 The Information
#1787 0.000010 Reuters
#2255 0.000001 OANN
#2257 0.000001 Newsmax
#2285 0.000008 Techcrunch
#2285 0.000002 Stat News
#2605 0.000006 CNBC
#3228 0.000002 The Economist
#3447 0.000033 New Yorker
#4490 0.000009 The Los Angeles Times
#4492 0.000020 Wall Street Journal
#5052 0.000001 The Intercept
#7251 0.000002 VICE
#8359 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#9742 0.000001 The Dispatch

system

#1531 0.000097 Think Tanks
#4389 0.000067 Baseline
#8406 0.000053 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1943 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2339 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3049 0.000029 Biotech
#3782 0.000009 Epidemiology Journalism
#4112 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

Informal Community

#8222 0.000013 Founders

Crypto

#1403 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1521 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1583 0.000002 Polkadot
#2558 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3533 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3614 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3660 0.000001 Cosmos
#4521 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4548 0.000011 Crypto Infrastructure
#4586 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5304 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#6084 0.000001 Ethereum
#6361 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8796 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#1525 0.000002 Rust
#2421 0.000001 Zig

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