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?

Blake Robbins

Blake Robbins

@blakeir

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#21 0.003450 Initialized Capital
#70 0.001727 Founders Fund
#74 0.001256 A16Z
#82 0.001531 Homebrew
#114 0.000880 Index Ventures
#118 0.001207 Khosla Ventures
#133 0.001004 Village Global
#170 0.000810 Benchmark Capital
#266 0.000594 My Climate Journey
#314 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#330 0.000577 Sutter Hill Ventures
#417 0.000208 Bessemer
#848 0.000004 Accel
#1256 0.000004 Sequioa
#1811 0.000004 Y Combinator

Crypto

#31 0.003081 Crypto VC
#255 0.000552 IDEO Founder Collective
#322 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#349 0.000538 Public Goods Funding
#443 0.000279 Crypto Infrastructure
#446 0.000221 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#482 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#507 0.000296 Ethereum
#519 0.000004 Polkadot
#522 0.000181 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#860 0.000077 Cosmos
#1018 0.000129 Crypto Journalists
#1274 0.000061 Crypto Investing
#1596 0.000044 Decentralized Web
#2467 0.000003 Crypto Angels

Journalism

#67 0.002056 Techcrunch
#111 0.001663 The Verge
#119 0.001437 The Information
#1087 0.000003 Newsmax
#1102 0.000003 OANN
#1261 0.000004 Stat News
#2195 0.000004 The Economist
#2561 0.000051 Bloomberg Opinion
#2801 0.000004 CNBC
#2974 0.000004 The Daily Beast
#3770 0.000004 Reuters
#3838 0.000014 BuzzFeed
#3935 0.000004 Wired
#4106 0.000004 Financial Times
#4261 0.000003 The Intercept
#4927 0.000024 The Atlantic
#4980 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5313 0.000004 The Los Angeles Times
#5435 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#5944 0.000016 New Yorker
#6237 0.000014 Ars Technica
#6255 0.000004 VICE
#7065 0.000004 Washington Post
#7975 0.000003 Recode
#7977 0.000003 The Dispatch
#8227 0.000004 Wall Street Journal

Culture and Political Economy

#275 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#296 0.000515 Social Epistemology
#325 0.000004 Fair Vote
#458 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#475 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#512 0.000004 Existential Risks
#583 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#601 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#624 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#640 0.000249 Progress Studies
#720 0.000176 The Long Now Foundation
#796 0.000150 Rationality
#842 0.000004 350.org
#847 0.000166 Bismark Analysis
#1032 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1880 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#2081 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2916 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#2999 0.000042 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3173 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3210 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3469 0.000030 Ecomodernists
#3655 0.000003 Works in Progress
#4079 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4079 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4581 0.000003 Anarachists
#4792 0.000003 EFF
#6496 0.000003 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6553 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#6836 0.000003 Degrowth

Informal Community

#1346 0.000101 Founders

Think Tanks

#769 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#825 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1031 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1234 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1715 0.000004 Cato Institute
#1728 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2051 0.000074 Mercatus Center
#2763 0.000004 Atlantic Council
#3652 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#3874 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute
#3880 0.000008 Hudson Institute
#4097 0.000003 Earth Institute
#5435 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5689 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5793 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#7225 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8374 0.000003 Hoover Institution

Science

#899 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1237 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3031 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#3264 0.000027 Biotech
#4518 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#8731 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9237 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#456 0.000004 Rust
#1252 0.000003 Zig

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