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?

Mckay Wrigley

Mckay Wrigley

@mckaywrigley

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#31 0.003049 Village Global
#108 0.001813 Y Combinator
#160 0.000777 Initialized Capital
#385 0.000345 Khosla Ventures
#495 0.000298 A16Z
#667 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#741 0.000003 Founders Fund
#842 0.000054 Bessemer
#1191 0.000003 Accel
#1598 0.000003 Sequioa
#2912 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3014 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3126 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3517 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3840 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#188 0.000797 Heterodox Academy
#272 0.000567 Bismark Analysis
#329 0.000346 Rationality
#340 0.000385 RadicalxChange
#378 0.000424 Progress Studies
#412 0.000305 The Long Now Foundation
#619 0.000259 Social Epistemology
#634 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#642 0.000213 Works in Progress
#677 0.000138 Effective Altruism
#683 0.000003 Fair Vote
#811 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#831 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#869 0.000003 Existential Risks
#926 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#945 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#973 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1190 0.000003 350.org
#1377 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1381 0.000094 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1546 0.000067 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2428 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2682 0.000036 Persuasion Community
#2860 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3445 0.000019 Harper's Open Letter
#3772 0.000021 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3789 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4614 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5292 0.000001 EFF
#5877 0.000001 Anarachists
#7217 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7897 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#534 0.000283 Crypto VC
#681 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#821 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#870 0.000003 Polkadot
#952 0.000128 IDEO Founder Collective
#1353 0.000067 Crypto Infrastructure
#1381 0.000042 Cosmos
#1478 0.000051 Decentralized Web
#2047 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2156 0.000026 Crypto Investing
#3038 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3141 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3895 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3983 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5254 0.000001 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#773 0.000193 Niskanen Center
#850 0.000191 Mercatus Center
#1111 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1171 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1366 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1601 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2065 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2608 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3108 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4318 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5099 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6164 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6828 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7183 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7490 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8009 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9101 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#773 0.000193 Foreign Policy
#1058 0.000003 The Information
#1593 0.000003 Stat News
#1731 0.000001 Newsmax
#1732 0.000001 OANN
#1975 0.000003 The Verge
#2546 0.000003 The Economist
#3149 0.000003 CNBC
#3315 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3335 0.000009 Palladium Magazine
#4205 0.000003 Wired
#4435 0.000003 Financial Times
#4478 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4673 0.000001 The Intercept
#5139 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5726 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6493 0.000018 The Atlantic
#6640 0.000003 VICE
#7460 0.000002 Reuters
#7576 0.000015 Bloomberg Opinion
#8513 0.000003 Washington Post
#8662 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8835 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8900 0.000001 Recode

Science

#1242 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1597 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3420 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5360 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8300 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#812 0.000003 Rust
#1896 0.000001 Zig

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