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?

Eric Holthaus

Eric Holthaus

@EricHolthaus

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#1 0.557000 Ecosocialism
#19 0.004658 Environmental Journalists
#26 0.002502 Degrowth
#46 0.002391 350.org
#102 0.000747 Extinction Rebellion
#230 0.000306 Environmental Defense Fund
#323 0.000473 Sierra Clib
#464 0.000205 Effective Altruism
#545 0.000212 Ecomodernists
#926 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#974 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1063 0.000075 Harper's Open Letter
#1092 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1158 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1211 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1787 0.000007 Climate Solutions
#2810 0.000042 Black Lives Matter
#3244 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3750 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3811 0.000027 EFF
#3968 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3999 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4082 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4423 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4643 0.000012 The Long Now Foundation
#6356 0.000001 Anarachists
#6670 0.000007 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7468 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7681 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8141 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8279 0.000001 Rationality
#9466 0.000010 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

Think Tanks

#44 0.002412 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#517 0.000332 Earth Institute
#1332 0.000117 Center for American Progress
#1397 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1452 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1650 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1880 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2337 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2642 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3368 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4591 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5077 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5227 0.000022 American Enterprise Institute
#5227 0.000022 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6222 0.000017 Council on Foreign Relations
#7746 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7982 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8231 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8353 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9868 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Science

#125 0.001037 ClimateTwitter
#547 0.000150 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1648 0.000074 EconTwitter
#1889 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2661 0.000060 Epidemiology Journalism
#3711 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8509 0.000001 Biotech

Venture Capital

#427 0.000395 My Climate Journey
#956 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1024 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1468 0.000002 Accel
#1869 0.000002 Sequioa
#2376 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2626 0.000023 Village Global
#2776 0.000001 Bessemer
#3315 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3403 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3798 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4081 0.000001 Homebrew
#5132 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6257 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#8642 0.000006 A16Z

Journalism

#682 0.000193 BuzzFeed
#993 0.000060 Techcrunch
#1335 0.000002 The Information
#1875 0.000002 Stat News
#1967 0.000038 Washington Post
#2049 0.000001 OANN
#2051 0.000001 Newsmax
#2232 0.000002 The Verge
#2823 0.000002 The Economist
#3437 0.000002 CNBC
#3563 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3664 0.000030 New Yorker
#3832 0.000019 The Intercept
#4198 0.000023 Ars Technica
#4431 0.000002 Wired
#4704 0.000002 Financial Times
#5077 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#5813 0.000006 VICE
#5988 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#5999 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7769 0.000015 The Atlantic
#7899 0.000001 Reuters
#8087 0.000010 The New York Times
#9170 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9190 0.000001 Recode
#9516 0.000001 The Dispatch

system

#7309 0.000019 Baseline
#8234 0.000073 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#5014 0.000023 Founders

Crypto

#972 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1103 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1159 0.000002 Polkadot
#2351 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3338 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3428 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3468 0.000001 Cosmos
#4288 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4338 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5731 0.000001 Ethereum
#6055 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6694 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8312 0.000004 Crypto VC
#8575 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9141 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1100 0.000002 Rust
#2211 0.000001 Zig

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