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?

Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes

@benjaminwittes

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#1 0.034053 Brookings
#87 0.002040 Atlantic Council
#231 0.000452 Council on Foreign Relations
#339 0.000370 Hoover Institution
#447 0.000113 Eurasia Group
#659 0.000219 American Enterprise Institute
#659 0.000219 National Bureau of Economic Research
#723 0.000121 Asia Society Policy Institute
#803 0.000110 Adam Smith Institute
#1436 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1490 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1592 0.000097 Center for American Progress
#1689 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1732 0.000070 Niskanen Center
#1822 0.000085 Mercatus Center
#1919 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2375 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3266 0.000011 Hudson Institute
#4353 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5153 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6195 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6927 0.000004 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Culture and Political Economy

#80 0.001705 Social Epistemology
#101 0.000932 EFF
#124 0.001028 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#182 0.000514 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#347 0.000408 Moderate Conservatism
#703 0.000106 Harper's Open Letter
#711 0.000159 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#767 0.000161 Persuasion Community
#801 0.000149 Ecomodernists
#966 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1001 0.000163 Heterodox Academy
#1014 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1159 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1198 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1250 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1267 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1289 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1364 0.000058 Populist Libertarians
#1473 0.000085 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1513 0.000002 350.org
#1698 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1835 0.000079 Progress Studies
#2464 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2900 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3005 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3498 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3917 0.000017 Rationality
#4191 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4612 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4648 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5947 0.000001 Anarachists
#7967 0.000001 Degrowth
#8494 0.000003 The Long Now Foundation

system

#43 0.001143 Think Tanks
#210 0.000253 Baseline
#294 0.000148 Reality-Based Community

Journalism

#187 0.000540 The Atlantic
#298 0.000471 The Dispatch
#426 0.000286 CNBC
#797 0.000162 Bloomberg Opinion
#948 0.000101 Washington Post
#998 0.000117 Ars Technica
#1105 0.000112 New Yorker
#1372 0.000002 The Information
#1419 0.000017 Reuters
#1721 0.000063 BuzzFeed
#1732 0.000070 Foreign Policy
#1773 0.000001 OANN
#1773 0.000001 Newsmax
#1912 0.000002 Stat News
#2266 0.000002 The Verge
#2859 0.000002 The Economist
#3456 0.000027 The Intercept
#3599 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4358 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4457 0.000002 Wired
#4747 0.000002 Financial Times
#5759 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6031 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6930 0.000002 VICE
#7050 0.000007 Wall Street Journal
#7667 0.000005 The New York Post
#8943 0.000001 Recode

Science

#392 0.000289 Biotech
#1561 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1954 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3746 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5394 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8037 0.000005 EconTwitter

Venture Capital

#996 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1063 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1505 0.000002 Accel
#1907 0.000002 Sequioa
#2414 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2510 0.000001 Bessemer
#2945 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3053 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3158 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3549 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3868 0.000001 Homebrew
#4709 0.000001 Village Global
#4875 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6050 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#7323 0.000009 A16Z

Crypto

#1012 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1142 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1199 0.000002 Polkadot
#2087 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3077 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3178 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3225 0.000001 Cosmos
#3962 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4032 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5321 0.000001 Ethereum
#5684 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6312 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8246 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8819 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1140 0.000002 Rust
#1937 0.000001 Zig

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