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?

Dan Romero

Dan Romero

@dwr

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#17 0.013889 Standard Crypto
#43 0.004379 Founders Fund
#58 0.002001 Initialized Capital
#59 0.002144 Khosla Ventures
#66 0.002467 Sequioa
#75 0.001253 A16Z
#217 0.000726 My Climate Journey
#295 0.000624 Sutter Hill Ventures
#310 0.000581 Y Combinator
#397 0.000388 Village Global
#427 0.000371 Benchmark Capital
#865 0.000092 Index Ventures
#1125 0.000003 Accel
#2133 0.000002 Bessemer
#3558 0.000002 Homebrew

Crypto

#26 0.003632 Crypto VC
#143 0.001141 Public Goods Funding
#218 0.000619 Ethereum
#249 0.000520 Crypto Investing
#262 0.000526 Crypto Infrastructure
#458 0.000169 Cosmos
#548 0.000168 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#552 0.000207 Crypto Angels
#582 0.000225 IDEO Founder Collective
#611 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#755 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#800 0.000003 Polkadot
#831 0.000099 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#891 0.000152 Crypto Journalists
#967 0.000088 Decentralized Web

Culture and Political Economy

#72 0.001646 Progress Studies
#84 0.001219 The Long Now Foundation
#149 0.000947 Social Epistemology
#362 0.000321 Rationality
#564 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#613 0.000003 Fair Vote
#741 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#761 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#800 0.000003 Existential Risks
#852 0.000165 Bismark Analysis
#858 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#875 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#905 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1121 0.000003 350.org
#1137 0.000106 Ecomodernists
#1308 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1365 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1606 0.000065 RadicalxChange
#1809 0.000061 Works in Progress
#2097 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2299 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3417 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3447 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4278 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4298 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4369 0.000016 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4998 0.000002 EFF
#5241 0.000002 Anarachists
#6886 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#6978 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7366 0.000002 Degrowth
#8348 0.000005 Harper's Open Letter
#8945 0.000004 Persuasion Community

Think Tanks

#589 0.000274 Mercatus Center
#1044 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1102 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1300 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1535 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2003 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2118 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2467 0.000017 Niskanen Center
#3044 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3929 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#3968 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#4462 0.000006 Hudson Institute
#4592 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5160 0.000023 American Enterprise Institute
#5160 0.000023 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5873 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6447 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7581 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8917 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#397 0.000269 Founders

Science

#1105 0.000098 Biotech
#1174 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1522 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3361 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4961 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9990 0.000003 EconTwitter

Journalism

#992 0.000003 The Information
#1269 0.000072 Palladium Magazine
#1356 0.000002 Newsmax
#1363 0.000002 OANN
#1489 0.000020 Techcrunch
#1532 0.000003 Stat News
#1821 0.000073 Bloomberg Opinion
#1910 0.000003 The Verge
#2467 0.000017 Foreign Policy
#2482 0.000003 The Economist
#3088 0.000003 CNBC
#3260 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3565 0.000031 New Yorker
#3696 0.000004 Reuters
#3913 0.000026 Recode
#3946 0.000031 The Atlantic
#4147 0.000003 Wired
#4380 0.000003 Financial Times
#4425 0.000002 The Intercept
#4467 0.000011 Washington Post
#5083 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5663 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6169 0.000014 Ars Technica
#6568 0.000003 VICE
#6979 0.000005 The New York Post
#8505 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8769 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Software Engineering

#742 0.000003 Rust
#1524 0.000002 Zig

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