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?

Norman Ornstein

Norman Ornstein

@NormOrnstein

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#10 0.009698 Persuasion Community
#284 0.000531 Social Epistemology
#300 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#350 0.000004 Fair Vote
#457 0.000333 Moderate Conservatism
#483 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#500 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#537 0.000004 Existential Risks
#560 0.000205 Ecomodernists
#608 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#624 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#649 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#865 0.000004 350.org
#872 0.000142 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#995 0.000164 Heterodox Academy
#1015 0.000079 Harper's Open Letter
#1055 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1138 0.000069 Degrowth
#1234 0.000115 Black Lives Matter
#1647 0.000067 The Long Now Foundation
#1955 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2138 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2499 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2933 0.000027 Rationality
#3001 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3123 0.000037 EFF
#3134 0.000027 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3272 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3743 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4150 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4875 0.000002 Anarachists
#7145 0.000002 Progress Studies
#8617 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Think Tanks

#31 0.002001 Brookings
#103 0.001688 Atlantic Council
#154 0.000873 Earth Institute
#231 0.000552 Center for American Progress
#373 0.000337 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#469 0.000266 Council on Foreign Relations
#793 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#849 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1054 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1259 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1356 0.000051 Hudson Institute
#1528 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1737 0.000004 Cato Institute
#2112 0.000071 American Enterprise Institute
#2112 0.000071 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2195 0.000027 Niskanen Center
#2801 0.000007 Berggruen Institute
#4675 0.000020 Mercatus Center
#5781 0.000008 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6082 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7216 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8678 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#199 0.000720 The Daily Beast
#252 0.000432 New Yorker
#278 0.000463 Washington Post
#431 0.000269 Bloomberg Opinion
#713 0.000179 The Atlantic
#742 0.000004 The Information
#1186 0.000002 Newsmax
#1196 0.000002 OANN
#1282 0.000004 Stat News
#1495 0.000095 The Intercept
#1678 0.000004 The Verge
#1880 0.000009 Reuters
#2195 0.000027 Foreign Policy
#2223 0.000004 The Economist
#2270 0.000008 Techcrunch
#2316 0.000047 Ars Technica
#2687 0.000045 The Dispatch
#2843 0.000004 CNBC
#3316 0.000023 The Los Angeles Times
#3951 0.000004 Wired
#4129 0.000004 Financial Times
#4599 0.000010 The New York Post
#4710 0.000019 Wall Street Journal
#4789 0.000004 BuzzFeed
#5164 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#6285 0.000004 VICE
#8250 0.000002 Recode

system

#737 0.000427 Think Tanks
#4072 0.000104 Baseline
#8316 0.000061 Reality-Based Community

Science

#404 0.000406 ClimateTwitter
#921 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1261 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3067 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#3367 0.000026 Biotech
#3978 0.000006 Epidemiology Journalism
#5655 0.000011 EconTwitter

Informal Community

#1033 0.000130 Founders

Venture Capital

#339 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#424 0.000004 Founders Fund
#872 0.000004 Accel
#1295 0.000004 Sequioa
#1832 0.000004 Y Combinator
#1980 0.000002 Bessemer
#2384 0.000049 Initialized Capital
#2456 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2483 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2656 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3074 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3446 0.000002 Homebrew
#4133 0.000002 Village Global
#5538 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#347 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#505 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#544 0.000004 Polkadot
#1544 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2190 0.000015 Cosmos
#2552 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2690 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3094 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3356 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4336 0.000002 Ethereum
#4733 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5343 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7421 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#7792 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#481 0.000004 Rust
#1352 0.000002 Zig

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