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?

Matt Duss

Matt Duss

@mattduss

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#215 0.000419 Belfer Center
#272 0.000485 Center for American Progress
#299 0.000383 Council on Foreign Relations
#305 0.000618 Atlantic Council
#532 0.000170 Cato Institute
#767 0.000151 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#797 0.000182 Brookings
#917 0.000071 Berggruen Institute
#1333 0.000106 Niskanen Center
#1536 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1612 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1783 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2018 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2154 0.000027 Eurasia Group
#2641 0.000047 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3434 0.000010 Hudson Institute
#5356 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6137 0.000008 Hoover Institution
#9824 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#293 0.000489 The Daily Beast
#494 0.000311 The Intercept
#920 0.000203 The New York Times
#1053 0.000091 Washington Post
#1184 0.000114 The Atlantic
#1333 0.000106 Foreign Policy
#1469 0.000002 The Information
#1946 0.000001 OANN
#1947 0.000001 Newsmax
#2005 0.000002 Stat News
#2184 0.000061 Bloomberg Opinion
#2357 0.000002 The Verge
#2725 0.000005 Reuters
#2952 0.000002 The Economist
#3574 0.000002 CNBC
#3646 0.000016 The New York Post
#4539 0.000002 Wired
#4855 0.000002 Financial Times
#5520 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5696 0.000013 Wall Street Journal
#5697 0.000017 New Yorker
#5893 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6112 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6853 0.000002 Techcrunch
#6947 0.000005 Recode
#7003 0.000002 VICE
#9386 0.000001 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#422 0.000263 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#457 0.000261 Persuasion Community
#1068 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1116 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1233 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1261 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1300 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1352 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1363 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1388 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1397 0.000098 Black Lives Matter
#1612 0.000002 350.org
#1797 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2130 0.000036 Harper's Open Letter
#2612 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2680 0.000024 Social Epistemology
#3101 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3151 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3162 0.000020 Degrowth
#3305 0.000024 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3655 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3905 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3987 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4332 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4759 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5461 0.000001 EFF
#6202 0.000001 Anarachists
#7393 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7725 0.000002 Rationality
#8041 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8139 0.000006 Ecomodernists
#8549 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

system

#849 0.000248 Think Tanks
#4484 0.000060 Baseline
#8655 0.000041 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1658 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2053 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2470 0.000068 Epidemiology Journalism
#3836 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8443 0.000001 Biotech

Informal Community

#8035 0.000013 Founders

Venture Capital

#1098 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1165 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1603 0.000002 Accel
#2005 0.000002 Sequioa
#2508 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2677 0.000001 Bessemer
#3098 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3218 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3314 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3705 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3998 0.000001 Homebrew
#4763 0.000005 Khosla Ventures
#4871 0.000001 Village Global
#5031 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#1114 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1241 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1300 0.000002 Polkadot
#2253 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3239 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3335 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3377 0.000001 Cosmos
#4166 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4212 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5573 0.000001 Ethereum
#5897 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6565 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8462 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9002 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1241 0.000002 Rust
#2109 0.000001 Zig

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