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?

Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

Columnist at the Washington Post. Opinions my own. Email me: Megan.McArdle -at- washpost.com Buy my book, The Up Side of Down amzn.to/1a3i2tK

79032 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#23 0.005796 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#65 0.001510 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#174 0.000701 Moderate Conservatism
#195 0.000782 Heterodox Academy
#208 0.000671 Social Epistemology
#214 0.000693 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#220 0.000664 Progress Studies
#244 0.000436 Rationality
#298 0.000446 Works in Progress
#416 0.000172 Harper's Open Letter
#507 0.000252 The Long Now Foundation
#516 0.000187 Effective Altruism
#577 0.000201 Persuasion Community
#612 0.000242 Bismark Analysis
#641 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#674 0.000176 Ecomodernists
#690 0.000003 Fair Vote
#817 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#838 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#875 0.000003 Existential Risks
#933 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#952 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#980 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1197 0.000003 350.org
#1384 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1872 0.000049 RadicalxChange
#2173 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2554 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3525 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4158 0.000003 Anarachists
#4365 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5066 0.000002 EFF
#5469 0.000007 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#74 0.001822 Niskanen Center
#82 0.001185 American Enterprise Institute
#82 0.001185 National Bureau of Economic Research
#83 0.001317 Mercatus Center
#181 0.000737 Cato Institute
#225 0.000621 Urban Institute
#308 0.000299 Hudson Institute
#317 0.000405 Hoover Institution
#492 0.000275 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#610 0.000226 Brookings
#621 0.000195 Council on Foreign Relations
#625 0.000235 Center for American Progress
#964 0.000011 Heritage Foundation
#1118 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1178 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1194 0.000049 Eurasia Group
#1821 0.000021 Adam Smith Institute
#2250 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2381 0.000011 Berggruen Institute
#3115 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4632 0.000016 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4725 0.000002 Earth Institute

Journalism

#74 0.001822 Foreign Policy
#93 0.000895 Ars Technica
#95 0.001454 The Dispatch
#104 0.000879 Bloomberg Opinion
#740 0.000170 The Atlantic
#941 0.000108 The New York Post
#1035 0.000061 CNBC
#1064 0.000003 The Information
#1243 0.000075 Palladium Magazine
#1403 0.000045 The Economist
#1441 0.000002 Newsmax
#1447 0.000002 OANN
#1600 0.000003 Stat News
#1603 0.000088 The Intercept
#1980 0.000003 The Verge
#2133 0.000008 Reuters
#2433 0.000065 The New York Times
#2601 0.000025 Washington Post
#2672 0.000048 Wall Street Journal
#3269 0.000005 Techcrunch
#3322 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4208 0.000003 Wired
#4438 0.000003 Financial Times
#5143 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5731 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6643 0.000003 VICE
#6859 0.000013 New Yorker
#8622 0.000002 Recode

system

#284 0.000713 Think Tanks
#568 0.000186 Baseline
#576 0.000119 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#390 0.000487 Public Goods Funding
#569 0.000266 Ethereum
#688 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#828 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#877 0.000003 Polkadot
#1775 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2214 0.000050 Crypto VC
#2771 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2894 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2938 0.000002 Cosmos
#3461 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4631 0.000011 Crypto Infrastructure
#5234 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5819 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7841 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#390 0.000362 EconTwitter
#770 0.000215 Epidemiology Journalism
#1011 0.000113 Biotech
#1249 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1604 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3427 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter

Venture Capital

#441 0.000329 Initialized Capital
#674 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#748 0.000003 Founders Fund
#783 0.000203 Village Global
#1198 0.000003 Accel
#1605 0.000003 Sequioa
#2123 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2209 0.000002 Bessemer
#2450 0.000050 A16Z
#2663 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2740 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2872 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3267 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3456 0.000018 Khosla Ventures
#3612 0.000002 Homebrew

Software Engineering

#819 0.000003 Rust
#1610 0.000002 Zig

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