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?

Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry

@RichLowry

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#14 0.008981 Founders Fund
#192 0.000800 Khosla Ventures
#632 0.000304 Sutter Hill Ventures
#722 0.000224 Benchmark Capital
#2470 0.000046 Initialized Capital
#5062 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5498 0.000001 Accel
#5799 0.000015 A16Z
#5866 0.000001 Sequioa
#6109 0.000000 Bessemer
#6287 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6382 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6652 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7100 0.000000 Homebrew
#7969 0.000000 Village Global

Culture and Political Economy

#54 0.002208 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#205 0.000605 Moderate Conservatism
#1035 0.000086 Populist Libertarians
#1497 0.000087 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3770 0.000018 Rationality
#5044 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5090 0.000001 Fair Vote
#5125 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#5184 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5225 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5259 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#5264 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5273 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5332 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5560 0.000001 350.org
#5732 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5927 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6413 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6840 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6888 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#7055 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7144 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#7461 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7937 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#7971 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8563 0.000000 EFF
#9640 0.000000 Anarachists

Journalism

#144 0.000925 The Dispatch
#935 0.000075 CNBC
#1964 0.000068 Bloomberg Opinion
#2515 0.000026 Washington Post
#2523 0.000050 Recode
#3953 0.000014 The New York Post
#4376 0.000028 The New York Times
#4577 0.000002 Financial Times
#5361 0.000001 The Information
#5457 0.000000 OANN
#5476 0.000000 Newsmax
#5856 0.000001 Stat News
#6137 0.000001 The Verge
#6733 0.000001 The Economist
#7261 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#7673 0.000002 Techcrunch
#7714 0.000000 The Intercept
#7996 0.000001 Wired
#8002 0.000005 Wall Street Journal
#8826 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#8950 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9577 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Think Tanks

#101 0.000896 Hoover Institution
#208 0.000402 Hudson Institute
#360 0.000385 American Enterprise Institute
#360 0.000385 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4441 0.000022 Mercatus Center
#5437 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5494 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5681 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5891 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6268 0.000001 Cato Institute
#7196 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7207 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7655 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8696 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8976 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9394 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Crypto

#1126 0.000115 Crypto VC
#4465 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#5087 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5178 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#5250 0.000001 Polkadot
#5717 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6599 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6612 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6643 0.000000 Cosmos
#7583 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7892 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9781 0.000000 Ethereum

system

#1421 0.000107 Think Tanks
#6750 0.000022 Baseline
#9916 0.000021 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#3426 0.000037 Founders

Science

#5584 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5992 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7536 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8466 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#5174 0.000001 Rust
#5619 0.000000 Zig

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