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?

Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul

@McFaul

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#7 0.011259 Atlantic Council
#46 0.001443 Hoover Institution
#88 0.000842 Eurasia Group
#139 0.000670 Council on Foreign Relations
#232 0.000327 Belfer Center
#239 0.000477 Brookings
#354 0.000412 Heritage Foundation
#446 0.000295 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#476 0.000306 Center for American Progress
#756 0.000112 Asia Society Policy Institute
#885 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#924 0.000160 American Enterprise Institute
#924 0.000160 National Bureau of Economic Research
#924 0.000093 Adam Smith Institute
#1143 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1171 0.000096 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1298 0.000142 Earth Institute
#1382 0.000049 Hudson Institute
#1835 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2587 0.000015 Niskanen Center
#3864 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#7841 0.000007 Mercatus Center

Journalism

#130 0.001547 The Verge
#404 0.000282 Bloomberg Opinion
#453 0.000262 New Yorker
#497 0.000248 The Daily Beast
#558 0.000352 Financial Times
#836 0.000003 The Information
#1260 0.000107 The Atlantic
#1291 0.000002 Newsmax
#1300 0.000002 OANN
#1380 0.000003 Stat News
#1690 0.000079 The Dispatch
#1701 0.000011 Reuters
#1865 0.000084 Wall Street Journal
#2219 0.000072 The New York Times
#2329 0.000003 The Economist
#2587 0.000015 Foreign Policy
#2938 0.000003 CNBC
#3407 0.000016 Washington Post
#3509 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3660 0.000010 Wired
#3832 0.000006 Palladium Magazine
#4384 0.000002 The Intercept
#4922 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5463 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6402 0.000003 VICE
#7060 0.000005 Recode

Venture Capital

#225 0.000702 My Climate Journey
#318 0.000569 Y Combinator
#435 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#519 0.000003 Founders Fund
#966 0.000003 Accel
#1001 0.000130 Khosla Ventures
#1149 0.000177 Homebrew
#1205 0.000117 Village Global
#1387 0.000003 Sequioa
#2074 0.000002 Bessemer
#2600 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2663 0.000042 Initialized Capital
#2740 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3153 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#4723 0.000022 A16Z

system

#655 0.000114 Reality-Based Community
#719 0.000645 Think Tanks
#4291 0.000074 Baseline

Culture and Political Economy

#187 0.000507 Persuasion Community
#387 0.000182 Harper's Open Letter
#398 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#447 0.000003 Fair Vote
#579 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#596 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#634 0.000003 Existential Risks
#700 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#718 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#745 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#961 0.000003 350.org
#1009 0.000125 EFF
#1074 0.000114 The Long Now Foundation
#1083 0.000148 Heterodox Academy
#1149 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1225 0.000109 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1318 0.000081 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1409 0.000089 Ecomodernists
#1439 0.000090 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2010 0.000043 RadicalxChange
#2041 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2110 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2478 0.000033 Social Epistemology
#2491 0.000028 Degrowth
#2590 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2722 0.000044 Black Lives Matter
#3387 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3817 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4227 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4781 0.000013 Moderate Conservatism
#5123 0.000002 Anarachists
#5725 0.000005 Progress Studies
#7364 0.000002 Rationality

Science

#678 0.000194 EconTwitter
#1014 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1358 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2510 0.000066 Epidemiology Journalism
#3181 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#6344 0.000011 ClimateTwitter
#8040 0.000002 Biotech

Informal Community

#3664 0.000035 Founders

Crypto

#445 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#597 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#641 0.000003 Polkadot
#1636 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2639 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2774 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2819 0.000002 Cosmos
#3240 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3478 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3727 0.000009 Crypto Investing
#4083 0.000003 Ethereum
#4393 0.000012 Crypto Infrastructure
#4953 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#7613 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#579 0.000003 Rust
#1457 0.000002 Zig

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