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?

Rob Perez

Rob Perez

@WorldWideWob

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#4517 0.000001 My Climate Journey
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#6438 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7331 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Journalism

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#8282 0.000001 VICE

Crypto

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#6008 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7663 0.000001 Ethereum
#7767 0.000001 Decentralized Web

Culture and Political Economy

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#2596 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
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#2853 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2899 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3129 0.000001 350.org
#3306 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3495 0.000021 The Long Now Foundation
#3875 0.000018 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
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#4554 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4876 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5098 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#5151 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5169 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5196 0.000022 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5302 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5470 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5684 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6124 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6157 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6794 0.000001 EFF
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#9934 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#2766 0.000052 American Enterprise Institute
#2766 0.000052 National Bureau of Economic Research
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#5452 0.000010 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5601 0.000020 Brookings
#5671 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#5847 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6110 0.000012 Mercatus Center
#6902 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7648 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9868 0.000001 Hudson Institute

system

#6968 0.000021 Baseline
#7694 0.000017 Think Tanks

Science

#3162 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3571 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5068 0.000014 Biotech
#5238 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6805 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#2752 0.000001 Rust
#3656 0.000001 Zig

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