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?

Neal Katyal

Neal Katyal

@neal_katyal

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#222 0.000604 A16Z
#404 0.000433 Homebrew
#552 0.000265 Initialized Capital
#582 0.000218 Khosla Ventures
#1034 0.000186 My Climate Journey
#1094 0.000134 Village Global
#1365 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1424 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1520 0.000093 Benchmark Capital
#1737 0.000006 Index Ventures
#1862 0.000002 Accel
#2260 0.000002 Sequioa
#2758 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3092 0.000001 Bessemer
#3703 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures

Think Tanks

#232 0.000590 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#384 0.000313 Council on Foreign Relations
#467 0.000285 Brookings
#612 0.000221 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#851 0.000216 Earth Institute
#1795 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1850 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1932 0.000078 Center for American Progress
#2044 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2197 0.000026 Eurasia Group
#2275 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2408 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2723 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3133 0.000009 Niskanen Center
#3746 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4864 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7585 0.000008 Mercatus Center
#7621 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9804 0.000007 American Enterprise Institute
#9804 0.000007 National Bureau of Economic Research

Culture and Political Economy

#520 0.000245 The Long Now Foundation
#1090 0.000122 RadicalxChange
#1336 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1383 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1500 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1527 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1567 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1610 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1625 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1651 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1875 0.000002 350.org
#2054 0.000056 Social Epistemology
#2062 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2422 0.000049 Ecomodernists
#2764 0.000034 Persuasion Community
#3003 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3053 0.000023 Harper's Open Letter
#3439 0.000021 Rationality
#3443 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3528 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4287 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4389 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4698 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4979 0.000010 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#5132 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5164 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5386 0.000020 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5814 0.000001 EFF
#6744 0.000001 Anarachists
#7730 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8284 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8425 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8662 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#674 0.000213 The Economist
#1730 0.000002 The Information
#2108 0.000064 Bloomberg Opinion
#2261 0.000002 Stat News
#2372 0.000001 OANN
#2377 0.000001 Newsmax
#2512 0.000052 The Atlantic
#2544 0.000006 Reuters
#2603 0.000002 The Verge
#3133 0.000009 Foreign Policy
#3691 0.000030 New Yorker
#3815 0.000002 CNBC
#3906 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4408 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4629 0.000019 Recode
#4759 0.000002 Wired
#5110 0.000002 Financial Times
#5151 0.000001 The Intercept
#5732 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6238 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6335 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7231 0.000002 VICE
#9564 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9876 0.000001 The Dispatch

Crypto

#700 0.000183 IDEO Founder Collective
#1007 0.000131 Crypto Journalists
#1382 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1411 0.000087 Crypto VC
#1501 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1562 0.000002 Polkadot
#2674 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3643 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3759 0.000001 Cosmos
#4630 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4722 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6240 0.000001 Ethereum
#6507 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7127 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9554 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Science

#1147 0.000153 Epidemiology Journalism
#1923 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2318 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3940 0.000021 Biotech
#4097 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

system

#1792 0.000080 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#4082 0.000030 Founders

Software Engineering

#1504 0.000002 Rust
#2540 0.000001 Zig

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