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?

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#50 0.004024 The Daily Beast
#276 0.000674 Wired
#298 0.000382 The Atlantic
#309 0.000485 The Intercept
#440 0.000362 The Economist
#647 0.000005 The Information
#879 0.000142 New Yorker
#895 0.000157 The Dispatch
#1015 0.000003 Newsmax
#1033 0.000003 OANN
#1055 0.000132 Recode
#1176 0.000005 Stat News
#1311 0.000077 The New York Post
#1339 0.000019 Reuters
#1477 0.000090 Bloomberg Opinion
#1594 0.000005 The Verge
#1728 0.000071 Foreign Policy
#1867 0.000064 VICE
#2037 0.000010 Techcrunch
#2144 0.000034 Washington Post
#2705 0.000005 CNBC
#3058 0.000022 Financial Times
#3721 0.000018 The Los Angeles Times
#3830 0.000027 Wall Street Journal
#4641 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#4766 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#4801 0.000020 Ars Technica
#5883 0.000018 The New York Times

Culture and Political Economy

#181 0.000689 Black Lives Matter
#187 0.000510 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#199 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#243 0.000650 Heterodox Academy
#249 0.000005 Fair Vote
#265 0.000479 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#301 0.000278 Degrowth
#336 0.000321 Persuasion Community
#383 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#399 0.000179 Harper's Open Letter
#399 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#436 0.000005 Existential Risks
#509 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#530 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#550 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#768 0.000005 350.org
#805 0.000205 Social Epistemology
#879 0.000165 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#958 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#1065 0.000144 Moderate Conservatism
#1700 0.000078 EFF
#1824 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#2036 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2343 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2851 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3098 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3508 0.000030 Ecomodernists
#3589 0.000003 Works in Progress
#3835 0.000017 The Long Now Foundation
#4009 0.000016 Rationality
#4028 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4339 0.000003 Anarachists
#6580 0.000003 Progress Studies

Think Tanks

#207 0.000547 Belfer Center
#209 0.000533 Brookings
#215 0.000596 Center for American Progress
#272 0.000420 Council on Foreign Relations
#356 0.000513 Atlantic Council
#695 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#959 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1158 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1195 0.000094 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1287 0.000045 Eurasia Group
#1372 0.000005 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1420 0.000080 Hoover Institution
#1630 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1723 0.000034 Hudson Institute
#1728 0.000071 Niskanen Center
#2071 0.000072 American Enterprise Institute
#2071 0.000072 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2364 0.000053 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3053 0.000041 Mercatus Center
#3522 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#3949 0.000003 Earth Institute
#4648 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute

Venture Capital

#239 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#330 0.000005 Founders Fund
#783 0.000005 Accel
#847 0.000227 Homebrew
#1067 0.000124 Khosla Ventures
#1189 0.000005 Sequioa
#1749 0.000005 Y Combinator
#1819 0.000003 Bessemer
#2231 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2314 0.000036 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2315 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#2544 0.000025 Village Global
#2932 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#4318 0.000003 Initialized Capital
#9132 0.000006 A16Z

system

#1027 0.000172 Think Tanks
#4227 0.000080 Baseline
#8371 0.000055 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#1021 0.000132 Founders

Science

#826 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1142 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#1208 0.000107 Epidimiology Twitter
#2660 0.000060 Epidemiology Journalism
#4078 0.000019 EconTwitter
#4891 0.000020 ClimateTwitter
#7819 0.000003 Biotech

Crypto

#246 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#411 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#444 0.000005 Polkadot
#1392 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1929 0.000044 Crypto Journalists
#2405 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2600 0.000003 Cosmos
#2744 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3114 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3764 0.000003 Ethereum
#4226 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4913 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#6207 0.000005 Crypto Infrastructure
#6974 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective
#8172 0.000004 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#381 0.000005 Rust
#1183 0.000003 Zig

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