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?

Lindsey Adler

Lindsey Adler

@lindseyadler

theathletic.com/author/200224/

I cover the Yankees for The Athletic. "Twitter is the playground of idiots." -Noel Gallagher

68278 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#176 0.000876 Niskanen Center
#1116 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1176 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1371 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1606 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2070 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2201 0.000067 American Enterprise Institute
#2201 0.000067 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2210 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2500 0.000049 Council on Foreign Relations
#2750 0.000009 Adam Smith Institute
#3113 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3995 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4675 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5421 0.000015 Mercatus Center
#5915 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6085 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6352 0.000017 Brookings
#6934 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7670 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8778 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#176 0.000876 Foreign Policy
#195 0.000830 BuzzFeed
#278 0.000378 Bloomberg Opinion
#450 0.000367 Wall Street Journal
#482 0.000414 Wired
#550 0.000176 The New York Post
#585 0.000236 Recode
#702 0.000087 Reuters
#726 0.000138 Washington Post
#1001 0.000134 The Atlantic
#1062 0.000003 The Information
#1411 0.000002 Newsmax
#1418 0.000002 OANN
#1598 0.000003 Stat News
#1617 0.000075 Financial Times
#1625 0.000087 The Intercept
#1815 0.000012 Techcrunch
#1949 0.000061 VICE
#1959 0.000066 The Dispatch
#1978 0.000003 The Verge
#2550 0.000003 The Economist
#2793 0.000038 Ars Technica
#3153 0.000003 CNBC
#3176 0.000036 New Yorker
#3320 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4043 0.000031 The New York Times
#4525 0.000009 The Los Angeles Times
#5440 0.000002 Palladium Magazine

Venture Capital

#247 0.000380 Bessemer
#497 0.000186 Index Ventures
#672 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#746 0.000003 Founders Fund
#913 0.000173 Benchmark Capital
#1196 0.000003 Accel
#1508 0.000083 Khosla Ventures
#1603 0.000003 Sequioa
#2121 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2638 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2844 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3596 0.000002 Homebrew
#4377 0.000002 Village Global
#4585 0.000002 Initialized Capital

Culture and Political Economy

#639 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#688 0.000003 Fair Vote
#815 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#836 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#873 0.000003 Existential Risks
#931 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#950 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#978 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#990 0.000161 Environmental Journalists
#1195 0.000003 350.org
#1382 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1695 0.000071 Ecomodernists
#2382 0.000054 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2521 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2545 0.000042 Moderate Conservatism
#2699 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2797 0.000025 Harper's Open Letter
#2800 0.000021 Social Epistemology
#3188 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3462 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3498 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3907 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4327 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4341 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4765 0.000012 Persuasion Community
#5045 0.000002 EFF
#5375 0.000002 Anarachists
#6518 0.000007 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7059 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7450 0.000002 Degrowth
#7493 0.000002 Progress Studies
#7522 0.000002 Rationality
#9795 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

system

#1268 0.000152 Baseline
#2800 0.000081 Reality-Based Community
#7511 0.000017 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#4808 0.000024 Founders

Crypto

#686 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#826 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#875 0.000003 Polkadot
#1751 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2749 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2873 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2917 0.000002 Cosmos
#3456 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3629 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4745 0.000002 Ethereum
#5191 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5758 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7794 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8246 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Science

#1247 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1602 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3425 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5055 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8108 0.000002 Biotech

Software Engineering

#817 0.000003 Rust
#1581 0.000002 Zig

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