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?

Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton

@jbenton

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#153 0.000735 Recode
#205 0.000785 BuzzFeed
#327 0.000358 The Atlantic
#332 0.000428 The Daily Beast
#425 0.000160 Reuters
#458 0.000261 New Yorker
#673 0.000186 Ars Technica
#886 0.000200 Wired
#1044 0.000178 The New York Times
#1313 0.000066 Washington Post
#1436 0.000092 Bloomberg Opinion
#1440 0.000096 The Los Angeles Times
#1553 0.000089 The Dispatch
#2080 0.000056 VICE
#2293 0.000001 The Information
#2474 0.000001 OANN
#2479 0.000001 Newsmax
#2499 0.000017 Foreign Policy
#2811 0.000001 Stat News
#3146 0.000001 The Verge
#3607 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3758 0.000001 The Economist
#4356 0.000001 CNBC
#4547 0.000020 Wall Street Journal
#5228 0.000001 The Intercept
#5633 0.000001 Financial Times
#6318 0.000001 Palladium Magazine

Think Tanks

#268 0.000600 Earth Institute
#1200 0.000103 Council on Foreign Relations
#2358 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2412 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2499 0.000017 Niskanen Center
#2600 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2828 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3228 0.000041 Brookings
#3274 0.000001 Cato Institute
#3550 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4286 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#4946 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5173 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#6762 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7214 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#7313 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7592 0.000008 Center for American Progress
#8837 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9928 0.000007 American Enterprise Institute
#9928 0.000007 National Bureau of Economic Research

Science

#241 0.000579 Epidemiology Journalism
#2486 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2899 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4615 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6486 0.000008 EconTwitter
#8798 0.000001 Biotech

Venture Capital

#817 0.000233 Homebrew
#1612 0.000082 Benchmark Capital
#1937 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1990 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2423 0.000001 Accel
#2811 0.000001 Sequioa
#3184 0.000001 Bessemer
#3293 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3569 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3728 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3792 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5314 0.000001 Village Global
#5517 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6209 0.000013 A16Z
#6558 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

system

#4103 0.000098 Baseline
#8401 0.000053 Reality-Based Community

Culture and Political Economy

#1323 0.000097 EFF
#1672 0.000060 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1912 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1959 0.000001 Fair Vote
#1976 0.000060 Social Epistemology
#2069 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2100 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2137 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2176 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2182 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2219 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2446 0.000001 350.org
#2629 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#2874 0.000022 Works in Progress
#3092 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3262 0.000038 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3616 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3708 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4180 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4219 0.000016 Moderate Conservatism
#4382 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4489 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4530 0.000014 Persuasion Community
#5220 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5251 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6378 0.000003 Progress Studies
#6859 0.000001 Anarachists
#8574 0.000005 Ecomodernists
#8694 0.000001 Rationality
#8769 0.000001 Degrowth

Informal Community

#4287 0.000028 Founders

Crypto

#1958 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2067 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2133 0.000001 Polkadot
#2774 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3739 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3807 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3853 0.000001 Cosmos
#4731 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4833 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6379 0.000001 Ethereum
#6625 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7241 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9000 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9698 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#2077 0.000001 Rust
#2640 0.000001 Zig

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