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?

emily bell

emily bell

@emilybell

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#1107 0.000151 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1567 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1625 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2062 0.000002 Accel
#2454 0.000002 Sequioa
#2942 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3072 0.000001 Bessemer
#3129 0.000029 Initialized Capital
#3461 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3611 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4070 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5221 0.000001 Village Global
#6472 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Journalism

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#213 0.000783 The Economist
#227 0.000723 BuzzFeed
#357 0.000336 New Yorker
#413 0.000494 Financial Times
#427 0.000159 Reuters
#455 0.000254 Washington Post
#600 0.000200 Bloomberg Opinion
#613 0.000278 Wall Street Journal
#703 0.000219 The Intercept
#735 0.000257 Wired
#996 0.000140 The Dispatch
#1014 0.000132 The Atlantic
#1039 0.000179 The New York Times
#1066 0.000058 CNBC
#1812 0.000012 Techcrunch
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#2045 0.000055 Ars Technica
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#2353 0.000001 Newsmax
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#4086 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#5741 0.000007 The New York Post
#6219 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6525 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7405 0.000002 VICE
#7505 0.000001 Foreign Policy

Culture and Political Economy

#276 0.000432 EFF
#1540 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1587 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1612 0.000063 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1700 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1728 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1770 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1812 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1822 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1853 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2076 0.000002 350.org
#2264 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2625 0.000035 The Long Now Foundation
#2982 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3042 0.000029 Persuasion Community
#3508 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3537 0.000018 Harper's Open Letter
#3569 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4035 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4197 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4264 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4366 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4367 0.000022 Ecomodernists
#4676 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5111 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5142 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6713 0.000001 Anarachists
#7706 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8405 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8585 0.000001 Rationality
#8644 0.000001 Degrowth

Science

#606 0.000261 Epidemiology Journalism
#2122 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2518 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4284 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8712 0.000001 Biotech

Think Tanks

#737 0.000160 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#995 0.000125 Hoover Institution
#1646 0.000036 Eurasia Group
#1995 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2049 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2244 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2474 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2919 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3367 0.000039 Brookings
#3395 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3944 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4340 0.000027 Council on Foreign Relations
#4844 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5805 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7505 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7945 0.000008 Center for American Progress
#8408 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8704 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8889 0.000005 Mercatus Center

system

#4213 0.000082 Baseline
#8356 0.000056 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#1440 0.000079 IDEO Founder Collective
#1586 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1699 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1764 0.000002 Polkadot
#2652 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3621 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3698 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3740 0.000001 Cosmos
#4605 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4692 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6198 0.000001 Ethereum
#6480 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6952 0.000006 Crypto VC
#7097 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9530 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Informal Community

#4953 0.000024 Founders

Software Engineering

#1707 0.000002 Rust
#2516 0.000001 Zig

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