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?

Daniel Torday

Daniel Torday

@DanielTorday

danieltorday.com

Novelist. Professor & Director of Creative Writing @brynmawrcollege. 2x National Jewish Book Award winner. BOOMER1, out in paperback from @picador.

5350 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#202 0.000765 Heterodox Academy
#333 0.000489 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#511 0.000142 Harper's Open Letter
#666 0.000184 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#698 0.000176 Persuasion Community
#717 0.000158 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2986 0.000031 Moderate Conservatism
#3328 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3374 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3476 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3510 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3551 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3565 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3577 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3626 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3855 0.000001 350.org
#4030 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4548 0.000010 Progress Studies
#4841 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5336 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5796 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5897 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5953 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6260 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6426 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6890 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6910 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7540 0.000001 EFF
#8608 0.000001 Anarachists

Journalism

#749 0.000200 The Intercept
#854 0.000162 Recode
#1337 0.000103 The Dispatch
#1365 0.000098 The Atlantic
#2109 0.000051 The Los Angeles Times
#2886 0.000041 New Yorker
#3330 0.000019 The New York Post
#3363 0.000008 Foreign Policy
#3671 0.000001 The Information
#4183 0.000001 Stat News
#4323 0.000001 OANN
#4344 0.000001 Newsmax
#4493 0.000001 The Verge
#4507 0.000017 VICE
#5104 0.000001 The Economist
#5665 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5697 0.000001 CNBC
#6459 0.000001 Wired
#6688 0.000002 Reuters
#6951 0.000001 Financial Times
#7452 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7855 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8827 0.000009 The New York Times

Think Tanks

#905 0.000164 American Enterprise Institute
#905 0.000164 National Bureau of Economic Research
#926 0.000136 Council on Foreign Relations
#2750 0.000050 Brookings
#3176 0.000038 Mercatus Center
#3363 0.000008 Niskanen Center
#3749 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3804 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3987 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4206 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4623 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5596 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5899 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6612 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7665 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8375 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8823 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Science

#2066 0.000084 Epidemiology Journalism
#3881 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4293 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5932 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Venture Capital

#2040 0.000063 A16Z
#3349 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3388 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3808 0.000001 Accel
#4183 0.000001 Sequioa
#4626 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5006 0.000001 Bessemer
#5309 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5529 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5539 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5898 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#6070 0.000001 Homebrew
#6961 0.000001 Village Global
#7237 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#8017 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Informal Community

#4936 0.000024 Founders

system

#7083 0.000020 Baseline

Crypto

#3373 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3467 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3540 0.000001 Polkadot
#4597 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5519 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5534 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5577 0.000001 Cosmos
#6246 0.000001 Ethereum
#6508 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6778 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8606 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#9173 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#3474 0.000001 Rust
#4486 0.000001 Zig

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