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?

Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

nymag.com/author/jonatha…

Writer for New York magazine. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story

203619 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#19 0.005095 Niskanen Center
#76 0.001275 American Enterprise Institute
#76 0.001275 National Bureau of Economic Research
#130 0.000840 Center for American Progress
#276 0.000176 Eurasia Group
#314 0.000400 Brookings
#368 0.000250 Berggruen Institute
#369 0.000342 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#599 0.000133 Hudson Institute
#645 0.000209 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#646 0.000218 Hoover Institution
#816 0.000202 Mercatus Center
#858 0.000146 Council on Foreign Relations
#966 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1027 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1224 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1440 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1865 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1931 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2967 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4364 0.000002 Earth Institute
#7425 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#19 0.005095 Foreign Policy
#33 0.002511 New Yorker
#52 0.002309 The Dispatch
#91 0.001853 Washington Post
#220 0.000480 The Atlantic
#466 0.000258 Ars Technica
#503 0.000238 Bloomberg Opinion
#580 0.000263 The Intercept
#914 0.000003 The Information
#1104 0.000167 The New York Times
#1237 0.000002 Newsmax
#1247 0.000002 OANN
#1455 0.000003 Stat News
#1841 0.000003 The Verge
#2042 0.000066 Recode
#2129 0.000008 Reuters
#2410 0.000003 The Economist
#2535 0.000019 Palladium Magazine
#2720 0.000006 Techcrunch
#3018 0.000003 CNBC
#3179 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3391 0.000018 The New York Post
#4082 0.000003 Wired
#4309 0.000003 Financial Times
#5000 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5565 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6495 0.000003 VICE
#8668 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Culture and Political Economy

#82 0.000998 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#97 0.001146 Moderate Conservatism
#141 0.001039 Environmental Journalists
#144 0.000570 Harper's Open Letter
#404 0.000401 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#484 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#504 0.000304 Bismark Analysis
#533 0.000003 Fair Vote
#566 0.000171 Effective Altruism
#649 0.000282 Heterodox Academy
#664 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#682 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#720 0.000003 Existential Risks
#721 0.000166 Ecomodernists
#780 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#801 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#827 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#839 0.000151 Persuasion Community
#1043 0.000125 Works in Progress
#1044 0.000003 350.org
#1232 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1245 0.000124 Social Epistemology
#1277 0.000083 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1294 0.000118 Progress Studies
#2053 0.000050 Rationality
#2205 0.000044 The Long Now Foundation
#2257 0.000031 Degrowth
#2325 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3040 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3329 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4205 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4897 0.000002 EFF
#5021 0.000002 Anarachists

Venture Capital

#307 0.000449 Khosla Ventures
#519 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#598 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1050 0.000003 Accel
#1121 0.000131 Initialized Capital
#1466 0.000003 Sequioa
#1989 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2024 0.000002 Bessemer
#2255 0.000034 Village Global
#2495 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2529 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2695 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3114 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3480 0.000002 Homebrew
#6506 0.000012 A16Z

Informal Community

#793 0.000160 Founders

system

#1132 0.000147 Think Tanks
#4140 0.000091 Baseline
#8471 0.000050 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1098 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1360 0.000094 EconTwitter
#1443 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3265 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4626 0.000016 Biotech
#4771 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#531 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#680 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#722 0.000003 Polkadot
#1591 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2596 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2730 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2776 0.000002 Cosmos
#3169 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3417 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4436 0.000002 Ethereum
#4858 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5417 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#6829 0.000004 Crypto Infrastructure
#7538 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#9961 0.000002 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#665 0.000003 Rust
#1403 0.000002 Zig

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