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?

Olivia Nuzzi

Olivia Nuzzi

@Olivianuzzi

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#5 0.017438 Persuasion Community
#13 0.006111 Environmental Journalists
#16 0.006546 Harper's Open Letter
#355 0.000302 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#400 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#449 0.000003 Fair Vote
#500 0.000315 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#562 0.000151 Degrowth
#581 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#598 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#636 0.000003 Existential Risks
#702 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#720 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#747 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#963 0.000003 350.org
#1151 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1204 0.000129 Social Epistemology
#1237 0.000118 Moderate Conservatism
#1606 0.000092 Progress Studies
#2214 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2299 0.000014 Populist Libertarians
#2419 0.000026 Heterodox Academy
#2473 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2972 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3248 0.000033 Black Lives Matter
#3314 0.000032 Ecomodernists
#3718 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4030 0.000016 Rationality
#4125 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4769 0.000002 Anarachists
#4835 0.000002 EFF
#5875 0.000007 The Long Now Foundation
#6649 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Journalism

#87 0.001935 BuzzFeed
#118 0.001266 Foreign Policy
#145 0.000742 OANN
#175 0.000600 The New York Post
#238 0.000601 The Information
#264 0.000418 New Yorker
#274 0.000407 The Atlantic
#285 0.000449 Washington Post
#370 0.000467 The New York Times
#376 0.000124 Newsmax
#443 0.000376 Wall Street Journal
#517 0.000268 The Dispatch
#556 0.000219 Ars Technica
#708 0.000153 The Daily Beast
#995 0.000133 Bloomberg Opinion
#1128 0.000028 Reuters
#1216 0.000135 Wired
#1382 0.000003 Stat News
#1480 0.000033 CNBC
#1706 0.000070 VICE
#1767 0.000003 The Verge
#2259 0.000041 Financial Times
#2331 0.000003 The Economist
#2510 0.000052 The Intercept
#2624 0.000037 The Los Angeles Times
#3345 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3531 0.000031 Recode
#4389 0.000004 Palladium Magazine

Think Tanks

#118 0.001266 Niskanen Center
#471 0.000109 Eurasia Group
#672 0.000215 American Enterprise Institute
#672 0.000215 National Bureau of Economic Research
#746 0.000195 Brookings
#887 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#939 0.000163 Atlantic Council
#946 0.000003 Belfer Center
#967 0.000168 Mercatus Center
#1145 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1197 0.000103 Council on Foreign Relations
#1357 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1796 0.000085 Center for American Progress
#1831 0.000030 Hudson Institute
#1831 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1837 0.000003 Cato Institute
#1864 0.000060 Hoover Institution
#3735 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4207 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5736 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6404 0.000006 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6856 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

system

#184 0.000263 Baseline
#402 0.000134 Reality-Based Community
#7161 0.000018 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#1482 0.000091 Founders

Venture Capital

#437 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#521 0.000003 Founders Fund
#968 0.000003 Accel
#1389 0.000003 Sequioa
#1917 0.000003 Y Combinator
#1918 0.000056 Village Global
#1950 0.000002 Bessemer
#2423 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2428 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2627 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2866 0.000031 Khosla Ventures
#3047 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3425 0.000002 Homebrew
#4405 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#6684 0.000011 A16Z

Science

#1016 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1360 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3183 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#3892 0.000021 Biotech
#4663 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9348 0.000003 EconTwitter
#9801 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Crypto

#447 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#599 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#643 0.000003 Polkadot
#1511 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2519 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2661 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2705 0.000002 Cosmos
#3016 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3311 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4256 0.000002 Ethereum
#4636 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5246 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#6584 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective
#7695 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure
#9864 0.000002 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#581 0.000003 Rust
#1318 0.000002 Zig

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