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?

John Arnold

John Arnold

@JohnArnoldFndtn

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#33 0.003134 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#162 0.000839 Earth Institute
#399 0.000259 Urban Institute
#493 0.000065 RAND Corporation
#504 0.000268 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#620 0.000260 Mercatus Center
#2182 0.000050 Hoover Institution
#2205 0.000026 Niskanen Center
#2905 0.000048 Center for American Progress
#3097 0.000043 Brookings
#3198 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3462 0.000034 Council on Foreign Relations
#3610 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3718 0.000035 American Enterprise Institute
#3718 0.000035 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4038 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4402 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#5025 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5432 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6268 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6943 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#141 0.000752 The Long Now Foundation
#157 0.000879 Progress Studies
#286 0.000247 Environmental Defense Fund
#647 0.000284 Heterodox Academy
#904 0.000180 Social Epistemology
#1005 0.000136 RadicalxChange
#1289 0.000090 Bismark Analysis
#1468 0.000080 Works in Progress
#1516 0.000074 Rationality
#2716 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2749 0.000042 Ecomodernists
#2763 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2849 0.000044 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2868 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2900 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2940 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2971 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2972 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3018 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3248 0.000001 350.org
#3266 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4486 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4757 0.000013 Persuasion Community
#5904 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6552 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6567 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7206 0.000001 EFF
#8289 0.000001 Anarachists
#8755 0.000005 Harper's Open Letter
#8969 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9251 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Venture Capital

#172 0.000860 My Climate Journey
#316 0.000431 Khosla Ventures
#885 0.000221 Homebrew
#1165 0.000125 Village Global
#2717 0.000045 A16Z
#2737 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2781 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3216 0.000001 Accel
#3589 0.000001 Sequioa
#4053 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4638 0.000001 Bessemer
#5169 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5175 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5542 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#6883 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#454 0.000317 Crypto Journalists
#980 0.000137 Public Goods Funding
#1420 0.000075 Ethereum
#1552 0.000079 Crypto VC
#2761 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2862 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2931 0.000001 Polkadot
#3070 0.000022 Crypto Infrastructure
#4229 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5161 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5224 0.000001 Cosmos
#6389 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8238 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8824 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#518 0.000264 EconTwitter
#1776 0.000056 Biotech
#3281 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3689 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5348 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7195 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

system

#1731 0.000084 Think Tanks
#5424 0.000034 Baseline
#8960 0.000033 Reality-Based Community

Journalism

#1193 0.000079 Palladium Magazine
#2205 0.000026 Foreign Policy
#2588 0.000050 Bloomberg Opinion
#2922 0.000042 Wall Street Journal
#3072 0.000001 The Information
#3238 0.000039 The Atlantic
#3587 0.000001 Stat News
#3907 0.000001 The Verge
#3948 0.000001 OANN
#3966 0.000001 Newsmax
#4312 0.000021 Recode
#4518 0.000001 The Economist
#5119 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5123 0.000001 CNBC
#5933 0.000001 Wired
#6383 0.000001 Financial Times
#6406 0.000001 The Intercept
#6829 0.000012 Ars Technica
#6926 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7019 0.000005 The Dispatch
#7443 0.000002 Techcrunch
#7539 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8399 0.000001 VICE
#9247 0.000008 New Yorker
#9895 0.000007 The New York Times

Software Engineering

#2870 0.000001 Rust
#4111 0.000001 Zig

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