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?

Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost

@ibogost

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#17 0.004682 The Atlantic
#381 0.000360 The Dispatch
#397 0.000284 Palladium Magazine
#687 0.000200 Recode
#731 0.000169 Ars Technica
#750 0.000252 Wired
#778 0.000175 The Economist
#1142 0.000123 Foreign Policy
#2396 0.000001 The Information
#2565 0.000001 OANN
#2569 0.000001 Newsmax
#2911 0.000001 Stat News
#3079 0.000034 VICE
#3246 0.000001 The Verge
#4450 0.000001 CNBC
#4482 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4505 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4679 0.000022 New Yorker
#4715 0.000010 Washington Post
#5300 0.000001 The Intercept
#5664 0.000002 Reuters
#5677 0.000021 Bloomberg Opinion
#5689 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5731 0.000001 Financial Times
#6309 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6909 0.000014 The New York Times
#7378 0.000006 Wall Street Journal

Science

#263 0.000543 Epidemiology Journalism
#938 0.000193 ClimateTwitter
#2593 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3004 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4714 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8862 0.000001 Biotech

Culture and Political Economy

#326 0.000346 EFF
#1280 0.000091 Bismark Analysis
#1398 0.000074 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1422 0.000084 Environmental Journalists
#1501 0.000094 Social Epistemology
#1601 0.000068 Rationality
#2019 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2066 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2176 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2207 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2244 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2281 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2285 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2325 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2553 0.000001 350.org
#2605 0.000021 Effective Altruism
#2687 0.000047 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2734 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#2859 0.000030 The Long Now Foundation
#2995 0.000009 Heterodox Academy
#3488 0.000023 Persuasion Community
#3808 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4268 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4572 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4859 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4991 0.000018 Ecomodernists
#5326 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6011 0.000004 Progress Studies
#6389 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
#6963 0.000001 Anarachists
#7872 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8872 0.000001 Degrowth
#8888 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

system

#352 0.000215 Baseline
#532 0.000123 Reality-Based Community
#8131 0.000016 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#952 0.000206 Homebrew
#2043 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2091 0.000057 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2096 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2527 0.000001 Accel
#2915 0.000001 Sequioa
#3028 0.000039 A16Z
#3274 0.000001 Bessemer
#3392 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3653 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3816 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4253 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5273 0.000003 Khosla Ventures
#5394 0.000001 Village Global
#5601 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#629 0.000147 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2065 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2172 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2240 0.000001 Polkadot
#3828 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3894 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3936 0.000001 Cosmos
#4827 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4929 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6513 0.000001 Ethereum
#6742 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7333 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9101 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9794 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Think Tanks

#1142 0.000123 Niskanen Center
#1168 0.000133 Center for American Progress
#1202 0.000103 Council on Foreign Relations
#1652 0.000105 Earth Institute
#2463 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2519 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2705 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2931 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3374 0.000001 Cato Institute
#3660 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4241 0.000023 Mercatus Center
#4385 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5024 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5218 0.000013 Hoover Institution
#6832 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7997 0.000011 American Enterprise Institute
#7997 0.000011 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8616 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8701 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8935 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Informal Community

#7321 0.000015 Founders

Software Engineering

#2183 0.000001 Rust
#2730 0.000001 Zig

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