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?

Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

Lens Rankings

Science

#3 0.020454 EconTwitter
#374 0.000304 Biotech
#481 0.000325 Epidemiology Journalism
#670 0.000010 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#939 0.000010 Philosophy Twitter
#1934 0.000027 Epidimiology Twitter
#3914 0.000030 ClimateTwitter

Think Tanks

#10 0.005396 Center for American Progress
#25 0.003853 Niskanen Center
#102 0.000916 Brookings
#195 0.000291 Eurasia Group
#246 0.000347 Hudson Institute
#348 0.000342 Council on Foreign Relations
#382 0.000340 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#540 0.000010 RAND Corporation
#605 0.000010 Belfer Center
#699 0.000207 American Enterprise Institute
#699 0.000207 National Bureau of Economic Research
#765 0.000100 Berggruen Institute
#813 0.000010 Urban Institute
#979 0.000010 Heritage Foundation
#1045 0.000108 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1113 0.000164 Earth Institute
#1334 0.000006 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1377 0.000010 Cato Institute
#1517 0.000104 Mercatus Center
#1905 0.000057 Hoover Institution
#2418 0.000010 Atlantic Council
#3626 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#12 0.005246 Moderate Conservatism
#36 0.000010 Schumacher Circle
#86 0.000010 Fair Vote
#100 0.000830 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#145 0.000569 Harper's Open Letter
#188 0.000695 350.org
#221 0.000010 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#238 0.000010 Extinction Rebellion
#274 0.000010 Existential Risks
#332 0.000329 Persuasion Community
#350 0.000341 Ecomodernists
#354 0.000010 Claremont Institute
#370 0.000010 Ecosocialism
#393 0.000010 Sierra Clib
#449 0.000347 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#716 0.000129 Effective Altruism
#802 0.000010 Environmental Defense Fund
#1112 0.000143 Heterodox Academy
#1149 0.000101 Rationality
#1165 0.000102 The Long Now Foundation
#1189 0.000131 Social Epistemology
#1199 0.000115 Environmental Journalists
#1235 0.000115 Black Lives Matter
#1308 0.000095 Works in Progress
#1493 0.000052 Degrowth
#1589 0.000084 EFF
#1785 0.000007 Climate Solutions
#2002 0.000006 Bismark Analysis
#2051 0.000046 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2668 0.000006 RadicalxChange
#2670 0.000006 Populist Libertarians
#3328 0.000006 Anarachists
#3951 0.000017 Progress Studies

Journalism

#25 0.003853 Foreign Policy
#62 0.001596 The Atlantic
#74 0.002860 The Daily Beast
#78 0.000985 Ars Technica
#142 0.000950 The Intercept
#151 0.000613 Bloomberg Opinion
#211 0.000506 New Yorker
#281 0.000508 The Dispatch
#348 0.000200 Reuters
#504 0.000010 The Information
#533 0.000180 The New York Post
#711 0.000260 The New York Times
#796 0.000174 Recode
#828 0.000006 OANN
#834 0.000006 Newsmax
#914 0.000107 Washington Post
#977 0.000010 Stat News
#1236 0.000034 Techcrunch
#1463 0.000010 The Verge
#1903 0.000010 The Economist
#2337 0.000010 CNBC
#3080 0.000012 Palladium Magazine
#3570 0.000010 Financial Times
#3655 0.000010 Wired
#4198 0.000010 BuzzFeed
#4438 0.000010 The Los Angeles Times
#5379 0.000010 VICE
#6458 0.000010 Wall Street Journal

Venture Capital

#82 0.000010 Standard Crypto
#187 0.000010 Founders Fund
#212 0.000737 Homebrew
#638 0.000010 Accel
#802 0.000113 Y Combinator
#1027 0.000010 Sequioa
#1122 0.000132 Benchmark Capital
#1130 0.000131 Initialized Capital
#1425 0.000132 My Climate Journey
#1669 0.000006 Bessemer
#1751 0.000006 Index Ventures
#1811 0.000064 Khosla Ventures
#1877 0.000059 Village Global
#2383 0.000006 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5190 0.000018 A16Z

system

#1226 0.000131 Think Tanks
#1237 0.000096 Reality-Based Community
#4003 0.000126 Baseline

Informal Community

#1923 0.000073 Founders

Crypto

#83 0.000010 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#256 0.000010 Crypto Political Economy
#287 0.000010 Polkadot
#1230 0.000006 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2195 0.000006 Public Goods Funding
#2253 0.000006 Crypto Angels
#2450 0.000006 Crypto Journalists
#2454 0.000006 Cosmos
#2762 0.000006 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3148 0.000006 Ethereum
#3348 0.000006 Decentralized Web
#3839 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#5833 0.000006 Crypto Infrastructure
#6038 0.000006 IDEO Founder Collective
#6864 0.000006 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#221 0.000010 Rust
#1009 0.000006 Zig

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