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?

Timothy B. Lee

Timothy B. Lee

@binarybits

rethinking.news

Independent reporter working to change the news business. Previously: tech and econ for @washingtonpost, @voxdotcom, @arstechnica. Subscribe to my newsletter!

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#2 0.057218 Ars Technica
#71 0.001889 Foreign Policy
#275 0.000468 Washington Post
#608 0.000227 The Dispatch
#1360 0.000067 Palladium Magazine
#1833 0.000074 The Intercept
#1875 0.000071 Bloomberg Opinion
#1915 0.000070 The Atlantic
#2063 0.000018 The Daily Beast
#2237 0.000059 Recode
#2956 0.000024 Financial Times
#3208 0.000001 The Information
#3274 0.000001 OANN
#3284 0.000001 Newsmax
#3720 0.000001 Stat News
#4038 0.000001 The Verge
#4248 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4653 0.000001 The Economist
#5254 0.000001 CNBC
#5569 0.000017 New Yorker
#5582 0.000008 The New York Post
#6052 0.000001 Wired
#6698 0.000002 Reuters
#7046 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7661 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8527 0.000001 VICE
#9588 0.000007 The New York Times

Culture and Political Economy

#58 0.002110 Social Epistemology
#123 0.000964 Rationality
#279 0.000471 Works in Progress
#324 0.000325 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#471 0.000340 Progress Studies
#710 0.000160 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#737 0.000123 Effective Altruism
#1015 0.000121 The Long Now Foundation
#1580 0.000053 Harper's Open Letter
#1672 0.000078 Moderate Conservatism
#2855 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2902 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3005 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3038 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3078 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3104 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3109 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3156 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3385 0.000001 350.org
#3563 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3830 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3832 0.000020 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3964 0.000018 Persuasion Community
#4344 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4620 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4950 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5100 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5251 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5948 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6595 0.000001 EFF
#7665 0.000001 Anarachists
#7727 0.000007 Ecomodernists
#9683 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#71 0.001889 Niskanen Center
#194 0.000703 Mercatus Center
#484 0.000212 Cato Institute
#756 0.000194 American Enterprise Institute
#756 0.000194 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1082 0.000144 Center for American Progress
#2090 0.000062 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2540 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#3282 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3336 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3525 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3746 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4351 0.000028 Brookings
#4514 0.000018 Hoover Institution
#4566 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4950 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5154 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5643 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6676 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7233 0.000014 Council on Foreign Relations
#7446 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7677 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Crypto

#380 0.000378 Crypto Journalists
#932 0.000147 Public Goods Funding
#1313 0.000083 Ethereum
#2900 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2980 0.000014 Crypto Investing
#2999 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3069 0.000001 Polkadot
#3523 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#3546 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4498 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4582 0.000001 Cosmos
#4659 0.000015 Crypto VC
#5681 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6176 0.000006 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#920 0.000103 Reality-Based Community
#946 0.000163 Baseline
#1369 0.000112 Think Tanks

Science

#1759 0.000065 EconTwitter
#2897 0.000052 Epidemiology Journalism
#3418 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3827 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4033 0.000020 Biotech
#5480 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Venture Capital

#2451 0.000046 Initialized Capital
#2560 0.000024 Village Global
#2876 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2920 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3351 0.000001 Accel
#3421 0.000019 Khosla Ventures
#3728 0.000001 Sequioa
#3959 0.000001 Bessemer
#4184 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4297 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4499 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4525 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4895 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5112 0.000001 Homebrew
#5542 0.000016 A16Z

Software Engineering

#3008 0.000001 Rust
#3428 0.000001 Zig

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