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?

Erik Torenberg

Erik Torenberg

@eriktorenberg

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#1 0.151193 Village Global
#21 0.003609 Homebrew
#106 0.001013 A16Z
#138 0.000903 Initialized Capital
#237 0.000636 Khosla Ventures
#360 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#380 0.000499 Sutter Hill Ventures
#443 0.000004 Founders Fund
#588 0.000191 Sequioa
#611 0.000226 Y Combinator
#804 0.000196 Benchmark Capital
#890 0.000217 My Climate Journey
#891 0.000004 Accel
#1224 0.000027 Index Ventures
#1945 0.000002 Bessemer

Culture and Political Economy

#59 0.002630 Bismark Analysis
#168 0.000825 Progress Studies
#207 0.000536 The Long Now Foundation
#303 0.000497 Social Epistemology
#321 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#342 0.000385 RadicalxChange
#371 0.000004 Fair Vote
#440 0.000226 Effective Altruism
#504 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#521 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#523 0.000222 Rationality
#557 0.000004 Existential Risks
#628 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#645 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#670 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#886 0.000004 350.org
#1076 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1359 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1668 0.000074 Ecomodernists
#1927 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2162 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2356 0.000039 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3238 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3254 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3714 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4131 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4761 0.000002 Anarachists
#4831 0.000002 EFF
#5232 0.000011 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6626 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7006 0.000002 Degrowth
#8891 0.000004 Persuasion Community
#9238 0.000005 Harper's Open Letter

Journalism

#88 0.001403 Palladium Magazine
#762 0.000004 The Information
#1148 0.000002 Newsmax
#1162 0.000002 OANN
#1306 0.000004 Stat News
#1643 0.000015 Techcrunch
#1698 0.000004 The Verge
#2227 0.000061 Bloomberg Opinion
#2243 0.000004 The Economist
#2863 0.000004 CNBC
#3025 0.000004 The Daily Beast
#3370 0.000014 Financial Times
#3754 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#3966 0.000004 Wired
#4139 0.000003 Reuters
#4299 0.000002 The Intercept
#4491 0.000023 New Yorker
#4828 0.000004 BuzzFeed
#5017 0.000008 Washington Post
#5360 0.000004 The Los Angeles Times
#6302 0.000019 The Atlantic
#6307 0.000004 VICE
#7092 0.000005 The New York Post
#8138 0.000002 Recode
#8157 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8424 0.000004 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#229 0.000648 Crypto VC
#235 0.000541 Crypto Investing
#294 0.000473 IDEO Founder Collective
#332 0.000397 Crypto Infrastructure
#361 0.000517 Public Goods Funding
#368 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#431 0.000334 Crypto Journalists
#461 0.000167 Cosmos
#521 0.000286 Ethereum
#523 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#564 0.000004 Polkadot
#914 0.000084 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1129 0.000056 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1234 0.000066 Decentralized Web
#1337 0.000052 Crypto Angels

Think Tanks

#364 0.000427 Mercatus Center
#812 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#870 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1075 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1285 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1757 0.000004 Cato Institute
#1819 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2809 0.000004 Atlantic Council
#3730 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#3754 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#3793 0.000008 Hudson Institute
#4201 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4379 0.000020 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4914 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5732 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5993 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7435 0.000013 American Enterprise Institute
#7435 0.000013 National Bureau of Economic Research
#7525 0.000013 Brookings
#7864 0.000008 Center for American Progress
#7877 0.000003 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#318 0.000320 Founders

Science

#941 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#976 0.000120 Biotech
#1282 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3087 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#4654 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#7125 0.000007 EconTwitter
#9509 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

system

#4897 0.000027 Think Tanks
#9523 0.000013 Baseline

Software Engineering

#502 0.000004 Rust
#1313 0.000002 Zig

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