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?

David Roberts

David Roberts

@drvolts

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#16 0.017263 Sierra Clib
#60 0.000008 Schumacher Circle
#71 0.002535 Environmental Defense Fund
#73 0.001233 Ecomodernists
#110 0.000008 Fair Vote
#111 0.001255 Environmental Journalists
#118 0.000429 Ecosocialism
#119 0.000498 Extinction Rebellion
#127 0.000977 350.org
#183 0.000520 Degrowth
#197 0.000624 Moderate Conservatism
#245 0.000008 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#298 0.000008 Existential Risks
#373 0.000008 Claremont Institute
#554 0.000270 Black Lives Matter
#662 0.000242 Social Epistemology
#813 0.000138 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#848 0.000146 EFF
#1200 0.000098 The Long Now Foundation
#1262 0.000121 Progress Studies
#1485 0.000085 Heterodox Academy
#1525 0.000074 Rationality
#1623 0.000082 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1744 0.000017 Climate Solutions
#2111 0.000030 Effective Altruism
#2135 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2139 0.000036 Harper's Open Letter
#2713 0.000005 RadicalxChange
#2809 0.000005 Populist Libertarians
#3489 0.000005 Works in Progress
#3641 0.000005 Anarachists
#5016 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#8094 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Think Tanks

#9 0.007034 Earth Institute
#11 0.008546 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#303 0.000413 Urban Institute
#469 0.000325 Niskanen Center
#535 0.000226 Council on Foreign Relations
#563 0.000008 RAND Corporation
#626 0.000008 Belfer Center
#765 0.000200 Center for American Progress
#868 0.000164 Brookings
#1017 0.000008 Heritage Foundation
#1148 0.000050 Berggruen Institute
#1333 0.000006 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1449 0.000008 Cato Institute
#2128 0.000027 Eurasia Group
#2505 0.000008 Atlantic Council
#3282 0.000042 American Enterprise Institute
#3282 0.000042 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4238 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#4898 0.000005 Hudson Institute
#5344 0.000011 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6497 0.000007 Hoover Institution
#8832 0.000005 Mercatus Center

Science

#65 0.001285 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#71 0.001653 ClimateTwitter
#970 0.000008 Philosophy Twitter
#1651 0.000061 Biotech
#2461 0.000043 EconTwitter
#2550 0.000008 Epidimiology Twitter
#3898 0.000007 Epidemiology Journalism

Venture Capital

#97 0.001236 Initialized Capital
#105 0.000008 Standard Crypto
#108 0.001254 My Climate Journey
#209 0.000008 Founders Fund
#661 0.000008 Accel
#755 0.000170 Khosla Ventures
#1051 0.000008 Sequioa
#1204 0.000167 Homebrew
#1410 0.000094 Village Global
#1591 0.000008 Y Combinator
#1643 0.000082 Benchmark Capital
#1709 0.000005 Bessemer
#1961 0.000005 Index Ventures
#2245 0.000044 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5484 0.000017 A16Z

Journalism

#238 0.000817 The Verge
#469 0.000325 Foreign Policy
#527 0.000008 The Information
#551 0.000251 Recode
#877 0.000005 Newsmax
#891 0.000005 OANN
#1015 0.000008 Stat News
#1149 0.000118 The Atlantic
#1264 0.000089 Ars Technica
#1321 0.000029 Techcrunch
#1326 0.000135 The New York Times
#1407 0.000086 VICE
#1418 0.000100 The Intercept
#1536 0.000086 Bloomberg Opinion
#1694 0.000030 The Daily Beast
#1729 0.000072 New Yorker
#1927 0.000009 Reuters
#1941 0.000008 The Economist
#2430 0.000008 CNBC
#3705 0.000008 Wired
#3714 0.000008 Financial Times
#4184 0.000005 Palladium Magazine
#4312 0.000011 Washington Post
#4372 0.000008 BuzzFeed
#4725 0.000008 The Los Angeles Times
#5896 0.000012 Wall Street Journal
#6410 0.000006 The New York Post
#6961 0.000005 The Dispatch

system

#245 0.000158 Reality-Based Community
#769 0.000350 Think Tanks
#4095 0.000099 Baseline

Crypto

#107 0.000008 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#279 0.000008 Crypto Political Economy
#309 0.000008 Polkadot
#1171 0.000045 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1772 0.000066 Crypto VC
#2293 0.000005 Crypto Angels
#2400 0.000005 Public Goods Funding
#2479 0.000005 Crypto Journalists
#2501 0.000030 Crypto Infrastructure
#2507 0.000005 Cosmos
#2915 0.000005 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3139 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3382 0.000005 Ethereum
#4437 0.000005 Crypto Investing
#6406 0.000005 IDEO Founder Collective

Informal Community

#3582 0.000035 Founders

Software Engineering

#244 0.000008 Rust
#1053 0.000005 Zig

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