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?

Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

slowboring.com

Writer and editor, Slow Boring. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center. Host of The Weeds. Vaxxed and relaxed. These tweets are worth what you pay for them.

507264 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#1 0.156379 Niskanen Center
#18 0.003625 Center for American Progress
#21 0.003463 Mercatus Center
#67 0.001358 American Enterprise Institute
#67 0.001358 National Bureau of Economic Research
#158 0.000789 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#174 0.000623 Brookings
#178 0.000749 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#251 0.000194 Eurasia Group
#261 0.000427 Council on Foreign Relations
#300 0.000307 Hudson Institute
#335 0.000406 Cato Institute
#484 0.000260 Hoover Institution
#516 0.000019 RAND Corporation
#547 0.000019 Belfer Center
#559 0.000160 Berggruen Institute
#675 0.000279 Earth Institute
#790 0.000019 Urban Institute
#881 0.000098 Adam Smith Institute
#883 0.000019 Heritage Foundation
#1262 0.000014 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2042 0.000027 Atlantic Council

Journalism

#1 0.156379 Foreign Policy
#22 0.003075 Ars Technica
#36 0.002531 The Intercept
#48 0.001952 Bloomberg Opinion
#63 0.001451 Recode
#71 0.001825 The Dispatch
#96 0.000977 The Atlantic
#181 0.000877 BuzzFeed
#192 0.000748 The Daily Beast
#195 0.000629 Palladium Magazine
#274 0.000607 The New York Times
#314 0.000532 Wall Street Journal
#371 0.000319 New Yorker
#467 0.000019 The Information
#471 0.000244 Washington Post
#689 0.000209 The Verge
#689 0.000014 OANN
#700 0.000142 The New York Post
#770 0.000014 Newsmax
#886 0.000050 Reuters
#905 0.000019 Stat News
#984 0.000062 Techcrunch
#1194 0.000077 The Economist
#1518 0.000030 CNBC
#2272 0.000041 Financial Times
#2621 0.000037 The Los Angeles Times
#3165 0.000033 VICE
#3236 0.000019 Wired

Culture and Political Economy

#7 0.013689 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#11 0.010098 Harper's Open Letter
#11 0.000019 Schumacher Circle
#25 0.002540 Effective Altruism
#28 0.003861 Environmental Journalists
#31 0.003434 Social Epistemology
#33 0.003469 Works in Progress
#39 0.002640 Rationality
#54 0.002179 Heterodox Academy
#61 0.000019 Fair Vote
#63 0.002031 Progress Studies
#70 0.001242 Ecomodernists
#119 0.000888 The Long Now Foundation
#125 0.000949 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#136 0.000857 Moderate Conservatism
#157 0.000829 RadicalxChange
#161 0.000982 Bismark Analysis
#198 0.000019 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#214 0.000019 Extinction Rebellion
#217 0.000676 Sierra Clib
#237 0.000656 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#248 0.000019 Existential Risks
#329 0.000019 Claremont Institute
#346 0.000019 Ecosocialism
#377 0.000306 Persuasion Community
#585 0.000019 350.org
#778 0.000019 Environmental Defense Fund
#1210 0.000065 Anarachists
#1745 0.000016 Climate Solutions
#2214 0.000033 Degrowth
#2261 0.000014 Populist Libertarians
#3874 0.000014 Black Lives Matter
#4512 0.000014 EFF

Venture Capital

#31 0.002958 Initialized Capital
#53 0.002252 Khosla Ventures
#59 0.000019 Standard Crypto
#166 0.000019 Founders Fund
#168 0.000868 My Climate Journey
#311 0.000447 A16Z
#503 0.000353 Homebrew
#616 0.000019 Accel
#694 0.000230 Village Global
#991 0.000019 Sequioa
#1103 0.000036 Y Combinator
#1425 0.000014 Index Ventures
#1615 0.000014 Bessemer
#2369 0.000014 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2732 0.000014 Benchmark Capital

Crypto

#58 0.000019 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#68 0.002215 Public Goods Funding
#104 0.001207 Ethereum
#233 0.000019 Crypto Political Economy
#240 0.000019 Polkadot
#363 0.000413 Crypto VC
#703 0.000197 Crypto Journalists
#787 0.000158 IDEO Founder Collective
#846 0.000109 Crypto Investing
#1043 0.000093 Crypto Infrastructure
#1207 0.000014 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1821 0.000022 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2073 0.000025 Decentralized Web
#2084 0.000014 Crypto Angels
#2222 0.000014 Cosmos

system

#14 0.000348 Reality-Based Community
#20 0.001327 Think Tanks
#32 0.000476 Baseline

Science

#105 0.000723 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#168 0.000673 EconTwitter
#322 0.000349 Biotech
#346 0.000425 Epidemiology Journalism
#830 0.000019 Philosophy Twitter
#1366 0.000132 ClimateTwitter
#2166 0.000019 Epidimiology Twitter

Informal Community

#1930 0.000072 Founders

Software Engineering

#196 0.000019 Rust
#983 0.000014 Zig

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