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?

Conor Dougherty

Conor Dougherty

@ConorDougherty

Scribbling. New York Times/Golden Gates book. #SkateTwitter enthusiast and @CandaceJackson superfan. conor.dougherty@nytimes.com. DMs open.

15286 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#129 0.000964 Initialized Capital
#643 0.000249 Village Global
#2641 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2685 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3118 0.000001 Accel
#3494 0.000001 Sequioa
#3676 0.000014 Khosla Ventures
#3959 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4416 0.000001 Bessemer
#4741 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4948 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4962 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5330 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5525 0.000001 Homebrew
#7205 0.000009 A16Z

Journalism

#264 0.000503 The Information
#366 0.000372 Recode
#588 0.000313 The New York Times
#1059 0.000142 The Los Angeles Times
#1490 0.000020 Techcrunch
#1690 0.000074 New Yorker
#1792 0.000088 Wall Street Journal
#2041 0.000039 Foreign Policy
#2527 0.000052 Bloomberg Opinion
#2723 0.000005 Reuters
#3449 0.000016 Washington Post
#3491 0.000001 Stat News
#3737 0.000001 OANN
#3751 0.000001 Newsmax
#3813 0.000001 The Verge
#4073 0.000011 BuzzFeed
#4425 0.000001 The Economist
#5031 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5031 0.000001 CNBC
#5845 0.000001 Wired
#6220 0.000001 The Intercept
#6295 0.000001 Financial Times
#6620 0.000018 The Atlantic
#7352 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8303 0.000001 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#420 0.000294 The Long Now Foundation
#472 0.000340 Progress Studies
#763 0.000215 Social Epistemology
#1374 0.000098 Heterodox Academy
#1745 0.000063 Rationality
#2618 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2623 0.000029 Works in Progress
#2665 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2771 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2802 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2842 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2874 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2875 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2921 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3135 0.000035 Ecomodernists
#3150 0.000001 350.org
#3328 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4268 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4777 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5035 0.000022 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5103 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5393 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5694 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6342 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6372 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7000 0.000001 EFF
#8086 0.000001 Anarachists
#8500 0.000005 Persuasion Community
#8805 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9066 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

system

#515 0.000192 Baseline
#726 0.000110 Reality-Based Community
#2088 0.000066 Think Tanks

Crypto

#869 0.000165 Public Goods Funding
#1269 0.000090 Ethereum
#2393 0.000045 Crypto VC
#2664 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2765 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2834 0.000001 Polkadot
#3718 0.000016 Crypto Infrastructure
#4005 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4943 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4970 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5009 0.000001 Cosmos
#6157 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8011 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8588 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Think Tanks

#634 0.000082 Urban Institute
#2041 0.000039 Niskanen Center
#2080 0.000070 Brookings
#3053 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3101 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3293 0.000036 Mercatus Center
#3468 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3515 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3951 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4269 0.000019 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4932 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6030 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6061 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7118 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7389 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7678 0.000004 Hoover Institution
#8031 0.000011 American Enterprise Institute
#8031 0.000011 National Bureau of Economic Research

Informal Community

#1743 0.000079 Founders

Science

#2295 0.000047 EconTwitter
#3183 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3593 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4745 0.000016 Biotech
#5258 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6997 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#2774 0.000001 Rust
#3889 0.000001 Zig

Automatically Detected Communities