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?

Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron

@edzitron

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#41 0.003988 The Verge
#49 0.002184 The Intercept
#103 0.000856 Ars Technica
#196 0.000781 Foreign Policy
#214 0.000587 Recode
#227 0.000639 The Information
#241 0.000560 Washington Post
#403 0.000176 Stat News
#424 0.000355 VICE
#490 0.000410 Wired
#546 0.000215 Bloomberg Opinion
#580 0.000188 Techcrunch
#583 0.000292 The Los Angeles Times
#686 0.000192 BuzzFeed
#832 0.000207 Wall Street Journal
#1009 0.000003 Newsmax
#1013 0.000122 New Yorker
#1027 0.000003 OANN
#1030 0.000135 The Dispatch
#1055 0.000128 The Atlantic
#1066 0.000154 Financial Times
#1527 0.000014 Reuters
#1882 0.000048 The New York Post
#2207 0.000004 The Economist
#2243 0.000011 CNBC
#2439 0.000065 The New York Times
#2983 0.000004 The Daily Beast
#4755 0.000003 Palladium Magazine

Think Tanks

#196 0.000781 Niskanen Center
#421 0.000343 Center for American Progress
#777 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#833 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1038 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1243 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1606 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1608 0.000030 Adam Smith Institute
#1723 0.000004 Cato Institute
#2025 0.000074 American Enterprise Institute
#2025 0.000074 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2775 0.000004 Atlantic Council
#3518 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#3941 0.000003 Earth Institute
#4230 0.000030 Brookings
#5541 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#5642 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5686 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#7096 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7375 0.000008 Mercatus Center
#8070 0.000003 Hoover Institution
#9736 0.000009 Council on Foreign Relations

Crypto

#313 0.000463 Crypto Journalists
#331 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#491 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#528 0.000004 Polkadot
#1387 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1556 0.000035 Cosmos
#1753 0.000067 Crypto VC
#1872 0.000044 Crypto Infrastructure
#2183 0.000006 Public Goods Funding
#2244 0.000014 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2378 0.000043 IDEO Founder Collective
#2400 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2951 0.000008 Ethereum
#3539 0.000010 Crypto Investing
#3804 0.000004 Decentralized Web

Culture and Political Economy

#284 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#294 0.000452 Works in Progress
#334 0.000004 Fair Vote
#424 0.000282 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#467 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#484 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#521 0.000004 Existential Risks
#592 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#610 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#633 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#851 0.000004 350.org
#1041 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1380 0.000056 Degrowth
#1508 0.000087 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1725 0.000073 Moderate Conservatism
#1819 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#2030 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2336 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2338 0.000056 Progress Studies
#2845 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#2874 0.000024 Harper's Open Letter
#3092 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3156 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3277 0.000003 Social Epistemology
#3430 0.000006 Anarachists
#4021 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4023 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4400 0.000015 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4734 0.000003 EFF
#6969 0.000003 Rationality
#8497 0.000003 The Long Now Foundation
#9489 0.000003 Ecomodernists

Venture Capital

#323 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#409 0.000004 Founders Fund
#857 0.000004 Accel
#957 0.000205 Homebrew
#1266 0.000004 Sequioa
#1813 0.000003 Bessemer
#1818 0.000004 Y Combinator
#2225 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2309 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#2504 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2835 0.000043 A16Z
#2927 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#3842 0.000003 Village Global
#4317 0.000003 Initialized Capital
#5217 0.000003 Khosla Ventures

system

#3421 0.000079 Reality-Based Community
#4104 0.000098 Baseline

Informal Community

#2186 0.000063 Founders

Science

#907 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1245 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3048 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#3442 0.000030 Epidemiology Journalism
#3794 0.000022 Biotech
#8789 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9311 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#465 0.000004 Rust
#1177 0.000003 Zig

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