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?

Felix Salmon

Felix Salmon

@felixsalmon

Lens Rankings

Journalism

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#139 0.000652 Reuters
#198 0.000814 BuzzFeed
#199 0.000487 Bloomberg Opinion
#235 0.000453 Ars Technica
#335 0.000574 Wired
#633 0.000319 Financial Times
#647 0.000229 Foreign Policy
#777 0.000175 The Economist
#831 0.000154 VICE
#856 0.000217 The New York Times
#929 0.000134 New Yorker
#1148 0.000118 The Atlantic
#2184 0.000008 Techcrunch
#3647 0.000015 Washington Post
#3903 0.000001 The Information
#4354 0.000001 OANN
#4375 0.000001 Newsmax
#4416 0.000001 Stat News
#4724 0.000001 The Verge
#5889 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5921 0.000001 CNBC
#6371 0.000006 The New York Post
#6749 0.000001 The Intercept
#7877 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8275 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Think Tanks

#107 0.000607 Eurasia Group
#647 0.000229 Niskanen Center
#780 0.000171 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1180 0.000043 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1471 0.000039 Adam Smith Institute
#1658 0.000090 Brookings
#2270 0.000054 Council on Foreign Relations
#3985 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4040 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4225 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4441 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4852 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5135 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5644 0.000014 Mercatus Center
#5818 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6640 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7146 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#7694 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8272 0.000010 American Enterprise Institute
#8272 0.000010 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8405 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Venture Capital

#315 0.000440 A16Z
#415 0.000378 Benchmark Capital
#998 0.000130 Khosla Ventures
#1437 0.000092 Village Global
#2045 0.000062 Initialized Capital
#3588 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3625 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4043 0.000001 Accel
#4415 0.000001 Sequioa
#4856 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5036 0.000001 Bessemer
#5338 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5556 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5569 0.000001 Index Ventures
#6094 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#488 0.000329 Social Epistemology
#704 0.000106 Harper's Open Letter
#717 0.000128 Effective Altruism
#1009 0.000118 Rationality
#1944 0.000070 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2091 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2638 0.000044 Ecomodernists
#3434 0.000021 The Long Now Foundation
#3567 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3613 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3715 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3749 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3790 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3802 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3814 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3865 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4094 0.000001 350.org
#4267 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4871 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5829 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5984 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6103 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6187 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6290 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6452 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6940 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7565 0.000001 EFF
#8633 0.000001 Anarachists
#9587 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Crypto

#664 0.000212 Crypto Journalists
#764 0.000186 Crypto VC
#3612 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3705 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3778 0.000001 Polkadot
#4627 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5140 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#5548 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5606 0.000001 Cosmos
#6537 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6808 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8631 0.000001 Ethereum
#8632 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8976 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

system

#4398 0.000066 Baseline
#8650 0.000015 Think Tanks
#8686 0.000040 Reality-Based Community

Science

#3491 0.000026 Epidemiology Journalism
#4119 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4532 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4683 0.000015 EconTwitter
#6150 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Informal Community

#5860 0.000020 Founders

Software Engineering

#3712 0.000001 Rust
#4516 0.000001 Zig

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