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?

John Collison

John Collison

@collision

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#29 0.003146 Progress Studies
#32 0.002875 The Long Now Foundation
#881 0.000190 Social Epistemology
#1571 0.000070 Rationality
#1782 0.000063 Works in Progress
#1872 0.000009 Bismark Analysis
#2762 0.000046 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3025 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3071 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3174 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3208 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3248 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3272 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3277 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3325 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3555 0.000001 350.org
#3732 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5261 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6131 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#6371 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6487 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#6667 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7292 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#7322 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#7938 0.000000 EFF
#8998 0.000000 Anarachists
#9157 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#9620 0.000000 Moderate Conservatism
#9924 0.000000 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Venture Capital

#96 0.002020 Y Combinator
#115 0.001707 Accel
#541 0.000216 Sequioa
#575 0.000223 Khosla Ventures
#1175 0.000032 Index Ventures
#1238 0.000114 A16Z
#1597 0.000085 Benchmark Capital
#2096 0.000070 Homebrew
#2266 0.000034 Village Global
#3046 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3090 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5421 0.000000 Bessemer
#5714 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#5928 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#7618 0.000000 Initialized Capital

Informal Community

#236 0.000389 Founders

Think Tanks

#639 0.000252 Mercatus Center
#3452 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3505 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3692 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3915 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4018 0.000005 Niskanen Center
#4334 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5315 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6405 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7012 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8069 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8766 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Crypto

#657 0.000219 Crypto VC
#3070 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3089 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3167 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3238 0.000001 Polkadot
#3521 0.000018 Crypto Infrastructure
#3648 0.000009 Crypto Investing
#5025 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5932 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#5935 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#5976 0.000000 Cosmos
#6910 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7192 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9060 0.000000 Ethereum

Journalism

#3242 0.000040 Bloomberg Opinion
#3374 0.000001 The Information
#3887 0.000001 Stat News
#4018 0.000005 Foreign Policy
#4200 0.000001 The Verge
#4760 0.000000 OANN
#4778 0.000000 Newsmax
#4819 0.000001 The Economist
#5394 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5414 0.000001 CNBC
#6207 0.000001 Wired
#6672 0.000001 Financial Times
#7108 0.000000 The Intercept
#7193 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7812 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8220 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#8674 0.000001 VICE

Science

#3585 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3996 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5649 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7871 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#3172 0.000001 Rust
#4921 0.000000 Zig

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