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?

Matthew Zeitlin

Matthew Zeitlin

@MattZeitlin

matthewzeitlin.com

Reporter. Have written for places — buzzfeed, slate, new york, the nation, n+1, the new republic — and would like to write for you. matthew.zeitlin@gmail.com

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#2 0.027601 Niskanen Center
#36 0.002152 Center for American Progress
#88 0.001304 Mercatus Center
#143 0.000911 Earth Institute
#167 0.000681 American Enterprise Institute
#167 0.000681 National Bureau of Economic Research
#198 0.000551 Brookings
#253 0.000192 Eurasia Group
#323 0.000387 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#399 0.000444 Atlantic Council
#467 0.000266 Council on Foreign Relations
#521 0.000015 RAND Corporation
#576 0.000015 Belfer Center
#682 0.000123 Berggruen Institute
#794 0.000015 Urban Institute
#900 0.000015 Heritage Foundation
#1216 0.000015 Cato Institute
#1271 0.000012 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1352 0.000049 Adam Smith Institute
#1369 0.000051 Hudson Institute
#1583 0.000071 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4377 0.000019 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#2 0.027601 Foreign Policy
#26 0.002976 The Intercept
#33 0.006363 The Information
#40 0.001626 Ars Technica
#43 0.001967 The New York Times
#50 0.001833 Recode
#53 0.002741 BuzzFeed
#60 0.001616 The Atlantic
#72 0.001319 Bloomberg Opinion
#145 0.001158 The Daily Beast
#161 0.000811 The Dispatch
#188 0.000529 New Yorker
#223 0.000585 Washington Post
#338 0.000494 Wall Street Journal
#340 0.000216 Stat News
#418 0.000491 Financial Times
#695 0.000143 The New York Post
#718 0.000012 OANN
#779 0.000012 Newsmax
#826 0.000059 Reuters
#1009 0.000057 Techcrunch
#1229 0.000076 Palladium Magazine
#1261 0.000058 The Verge
#1700 0.000020 The Economist
#2032 0.000015 CNBC
#3398 0.000015 Wired
#3887 0.000015 The Los Angeles Times
#4115 0.000021 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#6 0.009792 Environmental Journalists
#16 0.000015 Schumacher Circle
#41 0.002280 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#52 0.002090 Works in Progress
#66 0.000015 Fair Vote
#99 0.001073 Effective Altruism
#127 0.000717 Harper's Open Letter
#172 0.000803 Progress Studies
#203 0.000015 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#219 0.000015 Extinction Rebellion
#221 0.000646 Social Epistemology
#224 0.000472 Rationality
#254 0.000015 Existential Risks
#334 0.000015 Claremont Institute
#351 0.000015 Ecosocialism
#374 0.000384 Moderate Conservatism
#375 0.000015 Sierra Clib
#554 0.000207 Ecomodernists
#590 0.000015 350.org
#604 0.000254 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#656 0.000198 The Long Now Foundation
#699 0.000119 Degrowth
#780 0.000143 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#782 0.000015 Environmental Defense Fund
#902 0.000155 Bismark Analysis
#1170 0.000074 Populist Libertarians
#1759 0.000012 Climate Solutions
#1813 0.000057 Persuasion Community
#2261 0.000017 Anarachists
#2612 0.000012 RadicalxChange
#2884 0.000012 Heterodox Academy
#3877 0.000012 Black Lives Matter
#4534 0.000012 EFF

Venture Capital

#64 0.000015 Standard Crypto
#109 0.000708 Founders Fund
#138 0.000991 Homebrew
#164 0.000739 Initialized Capital
#279 0.000497 Khosla Ventures
#621 0.000015 Accel
#833 0.000183 Village Global
#1001 0.000015 Sequioa
#1338 0.000109 Benchmark Capital
#1373 0.000015 Y Combinator
#1469 0.000012 Index Ventures
#1617 0.000012 Bessemer
#2178 0.000012 My Climate Journey
#2371 0.000012 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3007 0.000039 A16Z

Crypto

#63 0.000015 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#238 0.000015 Crypto Political Economy
#253 0.000015 Polkadot
#257 0.000548 Crypto Journalists
#542 0.000196 Crypto Investing
#666 0.000216 Crypto VC
#1211 0.000012 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1268 0.000093 Public Goods Funding
#1302 0.000042 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1654 0.000056 Ethereum
#2120 0.000012 Crypto Angels
#2230 0.000035 Crypto Infrastructure
#2279 0.000012 Cosmos
#2679 0.000013 Decentralized Web
#4932 0.000012 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#28 0.000506 Baseline
#51 0.000276 Reality-Based Community
#787 0.000322 Think Tanks

Science

#653 0.000015 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#735 0.000183 EconTwitter
#851 0.000015 Philosophy Twitter
#1122 0.000096 Biotech
#2128 0.000080 Epidemiology Journalism
#2262 0.000015 Epidimiology Twitter
#5367 0.000016 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#2679 0.000049 Founders

Software Engineering

#201 0.000015 Rust
#988 0.000012 Zig

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