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?

Russell Roberts

Russell Roberts

@EconTalker

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#13 0.010119 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#53 0.002361 Social Epistemology
#94 0.001220 Rationality
#235 0.000435 Effective Altruism
#505 0.000310 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1008 0.000129 Works in Progress
#1018 0.000134 RadicalxChange
#1173 0.000100 Persuasion Community
#1484 0.000085 Heterodox Academy
#1559 0.000094 Progress Studies
#1723 0.000047 Harper's Open Letter
#1797 0.000042 Degrowth
#2555 0.000008 Populist Libertarians
#3036 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3082 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3185 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3219 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3259 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3283 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3288 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3336 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3566 0.000001 350.org
#3743 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3867 0.000026 Ecomodernists
#4690 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4871 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5185 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5477 0.000002 Anarachists
#6761 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7394 0.000001 EFF
#9142 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9427 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Think Tanks

#74 0.001169 Hoover Institution
#107 0.001107 Mercatus Center
#201 0.000728 RAND Corporation
#526 0.000181 Berggruen Institute
#701 0.000094 Cato Institute
#2318 0.000024 Eurasia Group
#2920 0.000041 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3361 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3516 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3702 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3926 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4453 0.000004 Niskanen Center
#5326 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5675 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7376 0.000013 American Enterprise Institute
#7376 0.000013 National Bureau of Economic Research
#7517 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7825 0.000013 Brookings
#8222 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8237 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Venture Capital

#251 0.000555 Village Global
#893 0.000216 My Climate Journey
#3057 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3101 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3230 0.000036 A16Z
#3527 0.000001 Accel
#3900 0.000001 Sequioa
#4354 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4847 0.000001 Bessemer
#5380 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5381 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5746 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5927 0.000001 Homebrew
#7093 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7885 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

system

#767 0.000358 Think Tanks
#4311 0.000072 Baseline
#8428 0.000052 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1210 0.000104 EconTwitter
#3596 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3897 0.000007 Epidemiology Journalism
#4007 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5660 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

#2101 0.000005 The Economist
#2523 0.000052 Bloomberg Opinion
#3385 0.000001 The Information
#3898 0.000001 Stat News
#4104 0.000022 The Dispatch
#4162 0.000001 OANN
#4181 0.000001 Newsmax
#4211 0.000001 The Verge
#4453 0.000004 Foreign Policy
#5404 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5425 0.000001 CNBC
#6217 0.000001 Wired
#6586 0.000001 The Intercept
#6683 0.000001 Financial Times
#7204 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7423 0.000016 The Atlantic
#7722 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7822 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8684 0.000001 VICE
#8921 0.000001 Techcrunch

Informal Community

#3423 0.000037 Founders

Crypto

#3081 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3178 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3249 0.000001 Polkadot
#4437 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4565 0.000002 Ethereum
#4734 0.000015 Crypto VC
#5362 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5381 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5422 0.000001 Cosmos
#6352 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6612 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7794 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8445 0.000001 Decentralized Web

Software Engineering

#3183 0.000001 Rust
#4325 0.000001 Zig

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