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 Itzkoff

Dave Itzkoff

@ditzkoff

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#57 0.001636 Recode
#83 0.002458 The Daily Beast
#321 0.000350 New Yorker
#326 0.000452 VICE
#375 0.000315 Washington Post
#411 0.000304 Techcrunch
#415 0.000170 Stat News
#454 0.000405 The New York Times
#488 0.000251 The Atlantic
#500 0.000270 BuzzFeed
#590 0.000234 The Dispatch
#651 0.000094 Reuters
#720 0.000004 The Information
#810 0.000149 Ars Technica
#899 0.000113 The New York Post
#1037 0.000003 Newsmax
#1054 0.000003 OANN
#1056 0.000161 Wired
#1172 0.000119 Foreign Policy
#1441 0.000091 Bloomberg Opinion
#1660 0.000004 The Verge
#2194 0.000004 The Economist
#2469 0.000007 CNBC
#3475 0.000032 Wall Street Journal
#4104 0.000004 Financial Times
#4235 0.000003 The Intercept
#4836 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5312 0.000004 The Los Angeles Times

Venture Capital

#257 0.000651 Homebrew
#313 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#400 0.000004 Founders Fund
#445 0.000196 Bessemer
#847 0.000004 Accel
#1255 0.000004 Sequioa
#1810 0.000004 Y Combinator
#2260 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2287 0.000055 A16Z
#2333 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#2526 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2613 0.000042 Initialized Capital
#2947 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#3880 0.000003 Village Global
#4645 0.000005 Khosla Ventures

Think Tanks

#334 0.000468 Earth Institute
#768 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#793 0.000194 Center for American Progress
#824 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1030 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1172 0.000119 Niskanen Center
#1233 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1275 0.000125 Mercatus Center
#1356 0.000109 Brookings
#1414 0.000087 Council on Foreign Relations
#1526 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1714 0.000004 Cato Institute
#2762 0.000004 Atlantic Council
#3244 0.000011 Hudson Institute
#3308 0.000029 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#3564 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#3656 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute
#5481 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#6477 0.000005 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7022 0.000014 American Enterprise Institute
#7022 0.000014 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8164 0.000003 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#274 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#324 0.000004 Fair Vote
#457 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#463 0.000258 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#474 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#511 0.000004 Existential Risks
#582 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#600 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#623 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#841 0.000004 350.org
#895 0.000174 Moderate Conservatism
#916 0.000179 Social Epistemology
#1031 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1135 0.000113 EFF
#1455 0.000103 Progress Studies
#1684 0.000064 Rationality
#1841 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#1927 0.000041 Harper's Open Letter
#1988 0.000048 Heterodox Academy
#2055 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2075 0.000056 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2363 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2395 0.000041 Persuasion Community
#2471 0.000052 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2865 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3119 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3603 0.000003 Works in Progress
#4040 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4042 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4400 0.000003 Anarachists
#5153 0.000017 Ecomodernists
#5779 0.000008 The Long Now Foundation
#6686 0.000003 Degrowth

system

#537 0.000189 Baseline
#907 0.000104 Reality-Based Community
#3806 0.000035 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#2272 0.000060 Founders

Science

#898 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1231 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#2891 0.000053 Epidemiology Journalism
#3029 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#3263 0.000027 Biotech
#8723 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9233 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Crypto

#321 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#481 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#518 0.000004 Polkadot
#1410 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2420 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2576 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2613 0.000003 Cosmos
#2808 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3146 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3938 0.000003 Ethereum
#4284 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4960 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#7047 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective
#7218 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure
#9086 0.000003 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#455 0.000004 Rust
#1203 0.000003 Zig

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