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?

Isaac Chotiner

Isaac Chotiner

@IChotiner

New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan; formerly a staff writer at Slate and senior editor at The New Republic.

90873 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#28 0.003732 Niskanen Center
#80 0.001208 Center for American Progress
#394 0.000331 Brookings
#767 0.000175 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#900 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#960 0.000003 Belfer Center
#995 0.000125 Council on Foreign Relations
#1145 0.000050 Eurasia Group
#1159 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1177 0.000129 American Enterprise Institute
#1177 0.000129 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1314 0.000037 Berggruen Institute
#1370 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1577 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1829 0.000093 Earth Institute
#1856 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2185 0.000022 Hudson Institute
#2900 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3415 0.000034 Mercatus Center
#4595 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5183 0.000013 Hoover Institution
#5695 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#28 0.003732 Foreign Policy
#69 0.001174 New Yorker
#121 0.001327 Financial Times
#138 0.000946 The New York Times
#153 0.000895 Washington Post
#194 0.000535 The Atlantic
#307 0.000445 The Daily Beast
#335 0.000406 The Dispatch
#401 0.000293 Ars Technica
#577 0.000265 The Intercept
#782 0.000205 The Los Angeles Times
#849 0.000003 The Information
#927 0.000142 Bloomberg Opinion
#1052 0.000133 Recode
#1066 0.000092 The Verge
#1097 0.000003 Newsmax
#1112 0.000003 OANN
#1395 0.000003 Stat News
#1444 0.000116 Wall Street Journal
#1558 0.000014 Reuters
#1890 0.000056 BuzzFeed
#2095 0.000041 The New York Post
#2107 0.000009 Techcrunch
#2345 0.000003 The Economist
#2956 0.000003 CNBC
#3915 0.000023 VICE
#4009 0.000005 Palladium Magazine
#4031 0.000003 Wired

Venture Capital

#169 0.001186 Y Combinator
#450 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#531 0.000003 Founders Fund
#661 0.000277 Homebrew
#982 0.000003 Accel
#1135 0.000166 My Climate Journey
#1384 0.000102 Initialized Capital
#1401 0.000003 Sequioa
#1785 0.000065 Khosla Ventures
#1892 0.000003 Bessemer
#2349 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2577 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2785 0.000020 Village Global
#2995 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#8952 0.000006 A16Z

Culture and Political Economy

#210 0.000745 Heterodox Academy
#220 0.000438 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#255 0.000297 Harper's Open Letter
#390 0.000369 Moderate Conservatism
#414 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#431 0.000407 Environmental Journalists
#463 0.000003 Fair Vote
#595 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#612 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#650 0.000003 Existential Risks
#713 0.000168 Ecomodernists
#714 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#724 0.000126 Effective Altruism
#731 0.000155 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#733 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#760 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#977 0.000003 350.org
#1165 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1341 0.000092 Works in Progress
#1643 0.000064 Persuasion Community
#1886 0.000061 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2119 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2422 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2561 0.000027 Degrowth
#2763 0.000032 The Long Now Foundation
#2911 0.000028 Rationality
#2926 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3186 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3323 0.000003 Social Epistemology
#3917 0.000017 Progress Studies
#4086 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4626 0.000003 Anarachists
#4797 0.000003 EFF

system

#1864 0.000077 Think Tanks
#4035 0.000114 Baseline
#8314 0.000061 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1030 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1374 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3194 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4553 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#5371 0.000012 Biotech
#9413 0.000003 EconTwitter
#9858 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Crypto

#461 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#613 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#657 0.000003 Polkadot
#1467 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2477 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2625 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2664 0.000003 Cosmos
#2941 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3236 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4143 0.000003 Ethereum
#4512 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#5127 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#7239 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective
#7534 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure
#9514 0.000003 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#595 0.000003 Rust
#1262 0.000003 Zig

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