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?

Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#132 0.001037 Homebrew
#346 0.000390 Khosla Ventures
#1029 0.000144 Initialized Capital
#1184 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1228 0.000026 Index Ventures
#1250 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1687 0.000002 Accel
#1785 0.000079 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2088 0.000002 Sequioa
#2548 0.000001 Bessemer
#2587 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2980 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3280 0.000035 A16Z
#3586 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4742 0.000001 Village Global

Journalism

#126 0.000870 Recode
#366 0.000375 The Daily Beast
#408 0.000120 The Information
#595 0.000310 The New York Times
#910 0.000133 BuzzFeed
#1099 0.000046 Techcrunch
#1201 0.000110 Bloomberg Opinion
#1283 0.000105 The Atlantic
#1298 0.000095 New Yorker
#1368 0.000082 Ars Technica
#1481 0.000015 Reuters
#1812 0.000001 OANN
#1812 0.000001 Newsmax
#2086 0.000002 Stat News
#2262 0.000050 Wired
#2437 0.000002 The Verge
#2479 0.000052 The Intercept
#3033 0.000002 The Economist
#3287 0.000033 The Dispatch
#3654 0.000002 CNBC
#3756 0.000007 Palladium Magazine
#4496 0.000020 Wall Street Journal
#4650 0.000010 Washington Post
#4868 0.000010 The New York Post
#4936 0.000002 Financial Times
#5206 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#6177 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7071 0.000002 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#214 0.000726 Heterodox Academy
#669 0.000192 The Long Now Foundation
#878 0.000179 Progress Studies
#1031 0.000122 EFF
#1155 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1202 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1269 0.000083 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1320 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1348 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1386 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1434 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1450 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1473 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1698 0.000002 350.org
#1883 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2251 0.000049 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2392 0.000041 Persuasion Community
#2492 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2820 0.000023 Works in Progress
#2949 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#2992 0.000016 Effective Altruism
#3037 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3532 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3784 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3863 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4348 0.000015 Moderate Conservatism
#4677 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#4830 0.000012 Harper's Open Letter
#6020 0.000001 Anarachists
#6356 0.000011 Ecomodernists
#8021 0.000001 Degrowth
#8054 0.000001 Rationality
#9755 0.000009 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

Think Tanks

#792 0.000230 Earth Institute
#1564 0.000097 Brookings
#1619 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1674 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1869 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2103 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2548 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2724 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3578 0.000036 Center for American Progress
#3586 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4381 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#4622 0.000017 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4701 0.000026 American Enterprise Institute
#4701 0.000026 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5206 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5965 0.000012 Mercatus Center
#6220 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6579 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#6989 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7259 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#7659 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Science

#1303 0.000099 EconTwitter
#1744 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2140 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3926 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#4279 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#8353 0.000001 Biotech

system

#4114 0.000095 Baseline
#8483 0.000049 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#1201 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1326 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1353 0.000084 IDEO Founder Collective
#1385 0.000002 Polkadot
#2126 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3116 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3215 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3260 0.000001 Cosmos
#4013 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4074 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4108 0.000020 Crypto VC
#5375 0.000001 Ethereum
#5730 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6373 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8859 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Informal Community

#5242 0.000022 Founders

Software Engineering

#1324 0.000002 Rust
#1976 0.000001 Zig

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