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?

Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer

@michaelshermer

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#11 0.006922 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#78 0.001122 Populist Libertarians
#168 0.000765 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#421 0.000415 Heterodox Academy
#1044 0.000113 Rationality
#1211 0.000129 Progress Studies
#1827 0.000075 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3257 0.000033 Ecomodernists
#3765 0.000020 Persuasion Community
#4003 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4049 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4150 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4184 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4224 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4233 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4244 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4300 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4479 0.000013 The Long Now Foundation
#4527 0.000001 350.org
#4703 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4862 0.000012 Moderate Conservatism
#6157 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
#9203 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#9620 0.000000 Bismark Analysis

Venture Capital

#59 0.001408 Bessemer
#1425 0.000100 Benchmark Capital
#4023 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4060 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4471 0.000001 Accel
#4845 0.000001 Sequioa
#5275 0.000001 Y Combinator
#9637 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#9875 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#9996 0.000000 Index Ventures

Think Tanks

#505 0.000314 Mercatus Center
#2483 0.000043 Hoover Institution
#4412 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4471 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4655 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4872 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5271 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5906 0.000018 American Enterprise Institute
#5906 0.000018 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6228 0.000001 Atlantic Council

Journalism

#3319 0.000033 The Dispatch
#4332 0.000001 The Information
#4843 0.000001 Stat News
#5144 0.000001 The Verge
#5741 0.000001 The Economist
#6290 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6337 0.000001 CNBC
#6470 0.000018 Bloomberg Opinion
#7051 0.000001 Wired
#7574 0.000001 Financial Times
#8031 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8657 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8828 0.000000 OANN
#8852 0.000000 Newsmax
#9447 0.000003 The New York Post
#9506 0.000001 VICE

Science

#775 0.000023 Philosophy Twitter
#4551 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6568 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Crypto

#4048 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4139 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4211 0.000001 Polkadot
#9059 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#9831 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#9885 0.000000 Cosmos
#9898 0.000000 Crypto Angels

Software Engineering

#4144 0.000001 Rust
#8990 0.000000 Zig

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