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?

Dave Weigel

Dave Weigel

@daveweigel

daveweigel.substack.com

Covering politics for @washingtonpost. daveweigel@gmail.com, 202-334-7387. @CWAUnion member. Buy my book: tinyurl.com/h7wyg2c (Avatar by @damnyouregis)

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#5 0.010450 Washington Post
#7 0.007765 The Intercept
#9 0.008408 Foreign Policy
#11 0.004766 The Dispatch
#13 0.003799 The New York Times
#30 0.003012 Bloomberg Opinion
#44 0.002176 The Atlantic
#67 0.002990 The Daily Beast
#71 0.001135 New Yorker
#71 0.001031 Ars Technica
#84 0.002015 BuzzFeed
#101 0.001021 Recode
#154 0.000985 The Los Angeles Times
#155 0.000694 The New York Post
#180 0.000826 Wall Street Journal
#285 0.000518 VICE
#459 0.000021 The Information
#462 0.000375 The Verge
#462 0.000128 Stat News
#477 0.000139 Reuters
#673 0.000017 OANN
#756 0.000017 Newsmax
#881 0.000084 CNBC
#1175 0.000081 The Economist
#1274 0.000032 Techcrunch
#1844 0.000039 Palladium Magazine
#2225 0.000052 Wired
#3083 0.000021 Financial Times

Think Tanks

#9 0.008408 Niskanen Center
#11 0.004937 Center for American Progress
#31 0.002131 American Enterprise Institute
#31 0.002131 National Bureau of Economic Research
#104 0.000898 Brookings
#213 0.000694 Earth Institute
#214 0.000383 Hudson Institute
#259 0.000429 Council on Foreign Relations
#269 0.000183 Eurasia Group
#376 0.000331 Cato Institute
#513 0.000021 RAND Corporation
#516 0.000179 Asia Society Policy Institute
#541 0.000021 Belfer Center
#546 0.000166 Adam Smith Institute
#787 0.000167 Hoover Institution
#788 0.000021 Urban Institute
#823 0.000199 Mercatus Center
#876 0.000021 Heritage Foundation
#1400 0.000077 Atlantic Council
#1584 0.000026 Berggruen Institute
#1740 0.000073 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2587 0.000039 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Culture and Political Economy

#7 0.000021 Schumacher Circle
#23 0.002978 Moderate Conservatism
#51 0.001669 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#57 0.000021 Fair Vote
#99 0.001153 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#149 0.001022 Environmental Journalists
#164 0.000473 Harper's Open Letter
#185 0.000731 Sierra Clib
#194 0.000021 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#210 0.000021 Extinction Rebellion
#244 0.000021 Existential Risks
#290 0.000567 Heterodox Academy
#325 0.000021 Claremont Institute
#342 0.000021 Ecosocialism
#394 0.000292 Persuasion Community
#401 0.000242 Effective Altruism
#418 0.000381 Social Epistemology
#419 0.000374 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#482 0.000244 Ecomodernists
#581 0.000021 350.org
#591 0.000202 Rationality
#773 0.000191 Black Lives Matter
#774 0.000021 Environmental Defense Fund
#886 0.000150 Works in Progress
#1076 0.000114 The Long Now Foundation
#1105 0.000073 Degrowth
#1158 0.000138 Progress Studies
#1622 0.000041 Anarachists
#1743 0.000018 Climate Solutions
#1763 0.000017 Bismark Analysis
#1990 0.000025 Populist Libertarians
#2477 0.000050 EFF
#2523 0.000017 RadicalxChange

system

#2 0.000953 Baseline
#4 0.000499 Reality-Based Community
#810 0.000297 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#55 0.000021 Standard Crypto
#163 0.000021 Founders Fund
#166 0.000888 Homebrew
#612 0.000021 Accel
#984 0.000021 Sequioa
#1159 0.000126 Benchmark Capital
#1228 0.000116 Initialized Capital
#1231 0.000105 Khosla Ventures
#1300 0.000021 Y Combinator
#1370 0.000017 Index Ventures
#1594 0.000017 Bessemer
#1907 0.000057 Village Global
#1910 0.000085 My Climate Journey
#2367 0.000017 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3652 0.000031 A16Z

Science

#204 0.000690 Epidemiology Journalism
#647 0.000021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#818 0.000021 Philosophy Twitter
#1784 0.000056 Biotech
#1947 0.000026 Epidimiology Twitter
#3700 0.000022 EconTwitter
#4734 0.000021 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#191 0.000475 Founders

Crypto

#54 0.000021 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#230 0.000021 Crypto Political Economy
#234 0.000021 Polkadot
#1204 0.000017 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1531 0.000072 Crypto Journalists
#1677 0.000040 Crypto Investing
#1836 0.000017 Public Goods Funding
#2017 0.000017 Crypto Angels
#2087 0.000017 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2155 0.000017 Cosmos
#2158 0.000049 IDEO Founder Collective
#2420 0.000017 Decentralized Web
#2510 0.000017 Ethereum
#3601 0.000017 Crypto Infrastructure
#4309 0.000018 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#192 0.000021 Rust
#981 0.000017 Zig

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