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?

Keith Humphreys

Keith Humphreys

@KeithNHumphreys

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Esther Ting Memorial Professor at Stanford University. Public policy advisor, film buff, and native of West by God Virginia. Writing at Washington Post.

12752 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#66 0.001894 Heterodox Academy
#143 0.000614 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#236 0.000528 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#538 0.000215 Ecomodernists
#694 0.000108 Harper's Open Letter
#864 0.000170 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#906 0.000139 Persuasion Community
#1122 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1169 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1255 0.000116 Moderate Conservatism
#1287 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1315 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1353 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1406 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1417 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1441 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1562 0.000048 Effective Altruism
#1666 0.000002 350.org
#1851 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2580 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2640 0.000033 Rationality
#3057 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3125 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3442 0.000027 Progress Studies
#3623 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3864 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3958 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4305 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4758 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5436 0.000001 EFF
#6149 0.000001 Anarachists
#8143 0.000001 Degrowth
#9834 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Think Tanks

#239 0.000653 Niskanen Center
#367 0.000376 American Enterprise Institute
#367 0.000376 National Bureau of Economic Research
#488 0.000109 RAND Corporation
#783 0.000159 Council on Foreign Relations
#830 0.000174 Brookings
#858 0.000156 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1284 0.000124 Mercatus Center
#1439 0.000046 Hudson Institute
#1469 0.000030 Berggruen Institute
#1642 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1837 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2071 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2518 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2851 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3365 0.000028 Hoover Institution
#3547 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#5310 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6296 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7497 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9737 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#239 0.000653 Foreign Policy
#396 0.000349 The Dispatch
#633 0.000201 Ars Technica
#652 0.000229 The Economist
#742 0.000205 The Intercept
#871 0.000150 Bloomberg Opinion
#1522 0.000002 The Information
#1913 0.000001 OANN
#1914 0.000001 Newsmax
#2054 0.000002 Stat News
#2182 0.000061 The Atlantic
#2233 0.000025 Palladium Magazine
#2406 0.000002 The Verge
#3459 0.000029 VICE
#3494 0.000020 The Los Angeles Times
#3624 0.000002 CNBC
#3725 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3811 0.000014 Washington Post
#3830 0.000034 The New York Times
#3897 0.000014 The New York Post
#4005 0.000003 Reuters
#4581 0.000002 Wired
#4732 0.000019 Wall Street Journal
#4904 0.000002 Financial Times
#5559 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6806 0.000013 New Yorker
#8807 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9051 0.000001 Recode

Science

#216 0.000501 Biotech
#336 0.000533 Epidimiology Twitter
#1712 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1865 0.000061 EconTwitter
#2107 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4269 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism

system

#5752 0.000022 Think Tanks
#6441 0.000024 Baseline
#9247 0.000028 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#6081 0.000019 Founders

Crypto

#1168 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1293 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1353 0.000002 Polkadot
#2220 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3207 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3303 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3347 0.000001 Cosmos
#4128 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4172 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5515 0.000001 Ethereum
#5856 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6516 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8431 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8970 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1151 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1218 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1656 0.000002 Accel
#2057 0.000002 Sequioa
#2558 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2646 0.000001 Bessemer
#3067 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3186 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3285 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3675 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3971 0.000001 Homebrew
#4837 0.000001 Village Global
#5000 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6159 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#1291 0.000002 Rust
#2076 0.000001 Zig

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