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?

Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood

@codinghorror

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#179 0.000960 Sutter Hill Ventures
#899 0.000217 Homebrew
#1308 0.000145 My Climate Journey
#1550 0.000020 Bessemer
#1555 0.000008 Y Combinator
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#8282 0.000000 Standard Crypto
#8306 0.000000 Founders Fund
#8698 0.000000 Accel
#9051 0.000000 Sequioa

Informal Community

#111 0.000787 Founders

Culture and Political Economy

#1298 0.000089 The Long Now Foundation
#5696 0.000007 Rationality
#8268 0.000000 Schumacher Circle
#8312 0.000000 Fair Vote
#8395 0.000000 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#8447 0.000000 Extinction Rebellion
#8462 0.000000 Claremont Institute
#8470 0.000000 Ecosocialism
#8484 0.000000 Existential Risks
#8530 0.000000 Sierra Clib
#8719 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#8767 0.000000 350.org
#8937 0.000000 Environmental Defense Fund
#9600 0.000000 Environmental Journalists

Journalism

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#8547 0.000000 The Information
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#9265 0.000000 The Verge
#9859 0.000000 The Economist

Crypto

#2161 0.000017 Cosmos
#2984 0.000009 Decentralized Web
#6000 0.000001 Ethereum
#8309 0.000000 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#8386 0.000000 Crypto Political Economy
#8467 0.000000 Polkadot
#9467 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Think Tanks

#7507 0.000008 Mercatus Center
#8621 0.000000 RAND Corporation
#8684 0.000000 Belfer Center
#8875 0.000000 Urban Institute
#9046 0.000000 Heritage Foundation
#9411 0.000000 Cato Institute

Science

#8786 0.000000 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#9195 0.000000 Philosophy Twitter

Software Engineering

#8384 0.000000 Rust
#9397 0.000000 Zig

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