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?

David French

David French

@DavidAFrench

frenchpress.thedispatch.com

Senior Editor @TheDispatch, Columnist @Time, Co-host, Advisory Opinions podcast, Iraq vet, married to @NancyAFrench. “A real problem” -Rush Limbaugh.

252810 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#2 0.053740 The Dispatch
#92 0.001002 The Atlantic
#110 0.001039 OANN
#249 0.000417 Bloomberg Opinion
#467 0.000354 Wall Street Journal
#479 0.000316 The Intercept
#617 0.000202 New Yorker
#628 0.000156 The New York Post
#662 0.000224 Foreign Policy
#799 0.000230 The New York Times
#823 0.000003 The Information
#866 0.000087 CNBC
#1182 0.000002 Newsmax
#1366 0.000003 Stat News
#1393 0.000081 Ars Technica
#1753 0.000003 The Verge
#2001 0.000009 Reuters
#2317 0.000003 The Economist
#2905 0.000021 Washington Post
#3096 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4013 0.000003 Wired
#4202 0.000003 Financial Times
#4453 0.000004 Palladium Magazine
#4898 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5104 0.000003 Techcrunch
#5442 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6386 0.000003 VICE
#8241 0.000002 Recode

Culture and Political Economy

#5 0.025186 Moderate Conservatism
#7 0.013413 Persuasion Community
#63 0.001366 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#65 0.001991 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#97 0.001158 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#101 0.001263 Heterodox Academy
#107 0.001229 Social Epistemology
#352 0.000204 Harper's Open Letter
#379 0.000317 Ecomodernists
#385 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#434 0.000003 Fair Vote
#566 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#583 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#621 0.000003 Existential Risks
#632 0.000146 Populist Libertarians
#687 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#706 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#732 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#882 0.000134 Rationality
#948 0.000003 350.org
#1136 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1511 0.000097 Progress Studies
#1952 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2226 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2495 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2998 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3538 0.000005 Anarachists
#3739 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4147 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4160 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4855 0.000002 EFF
#7075 0.000002 Degrowth
#9271 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Think Tanks

#38 0.001991 American Enterprise Institute
#38 0.001991 National Bureau of Economic Research
#94 0.000862 Council on Foreign Relations
#190 0.000597 Hoover Institution
#241 0.000474 Brookings
#301 0.000514 Mercatus Center
#307 0.000155 Eurasia Group
#355 0.000410 Heritage Foundation
#431 0.000192 Hudson Institute
#662 0.000224 Niskanen Center
#666 0.000224 Center for American Progress
#674 0.000102 Cato Institute
#720 0.000228 Atlantic Council
#873 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#932 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1131 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1876 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3000 0.000040 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3764 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4283 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4530 0.000017 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7178 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

system

#124 0.000309 Baseline
#185 0.000174 Reality-Based Community
#749 0.000387 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#422 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#506 0.000003 Founders Fund
#953 0.000003 Accel
#1374 0.000003 Sequioa
#1466 0.000104 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1704 0.000069 Village Global
#1905 0.000003 Y Combinator
#1978 0.000002 Bessemer
#2454 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2456 0.000002 Index Ventures
#3072 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3445 0.000002 Homebrew
#4424 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5531 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#6865 0.000010 A16Z

Science

#1001 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1345 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2471 0.000037 Biotech
#3158 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4700 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#7755 0.000005 EconTwitter
#9751 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#5001 0.000023 Founders

Crypto

#432 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#584 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#628 0.000003 Polkadot
#1540 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2259 0.000006 Public Goods Funding
#2548 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2686 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2732 0.000002 Cosmos
#3269 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4327 0.000002 Ethereum
#4725 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5335 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7414 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#7779 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure
#8938 0.000003 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#566 0.000003 Rust
#1348 0.000002 Zig

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