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?

Ben Collins

Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#52 0.003815 The Daily Beast
#52 0.002344 Wired
#92 0.000898 Ars Technica
#110 0.000974 Recode
#158 0.001061 BuzzFeed
#204 0.000512 The New York Post
#281 0.000516 The Intercept
#299 0.000374 The Information
#333 0.000353 The Atlantic
#397 0.000178 Reuters
#419 0.000359 Foreign Policy
#551 0.000259 VICE
#598 0.000206 New Yorker
#659 0.000186 Bloomberg Opinion
#677 0.000055 Stat News
#696 0.000123 CNBC
#787 0.000218 Wall Street Journal
#801 0.000160 The Verge
#895 0.000004 Newsmax
#911 0.000004 OANN
#943 0.000197 The New York Times
#1170 0.000120 The Dispatch
#1209 0.000035 Techcrunch
#1411 0.000100 Financial Times
#1923 0.000038 Washington Post
#2038 0.000006 The Economist
#2692 0.000017 Palladium Magazine
#3265 0.000023 The Los Angeles Times

Venture Capital

#23 0.003445 Homebrew
#178 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#278 0.000006 Founders Fund
#727 0.000006 Accel
#800 0.000236 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1123 0.000006 Sequioa
#1695 0.000006 Y Combinator
#1724 0.000004 Bessemer
#1754 0.000077 Initialized Capital
#2013 0.000004 Index Ventures
#2232 0.000004 My Climate Journey
#2857 0.000004 Benchmark Capital
#3520 0.000017 Khosla Ventures
#3653 0.000004 Village Global
#4826 0.000021 A16Z

Culture and Political Economy

#128 0.000939 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#136 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#186 0.000006 Fair Vote
#320 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#337 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#374 0.000006 Existential Risks
#447 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#468 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#489 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#684 0.000136 Anarachists
#706 0.000006 350.org
#895 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#1105 0.000108 Ecomodernists
#1189 0.000109 EFF
#1291 0.000102 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1731 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1888 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#2175 0.000004 Bismark Analysis
#2179 0.000061 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2524 0.000042 Moderate Conservatism
#2729 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#2740 0.000031 Rationality
#2851 0.000024 Harper's Open Letter
#2876 0.000004 Populist Libertarians
#3077 0.000004 Heterodox Academy
#3157 0.000027 Persuasion Community
#3225 0.000004 Social Epistemology
#3501 0.000004 Works in Progress
#3920 0.000004 Effective Altruism
#3932 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#5318 0.000009 The Long Now Foundation
#5982 0.000004 Progress Studies
#6205 0.000004 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#117 0.000825 Brookings
#188 0.000763 Earth Institute
#280 0.000458 Urban Institute
#367 0.000072 Belfer Center
#407 0.000433 Atlantic Council
#419 0.000359 Niskanen Center
#637 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#1052 0.000117 Council on Foreign Relations
#1099 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1435 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1559 0.000006 Cato Institute
#2277 0.000012 Berggruen Institute
#2568 0.000057 American Enterprise Institute
#2568 0.000057 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3683 0.000029 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3825 0.000032 Center for American Progress
#4433 0.000006 Hudson Institute
#4594 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#4638 0.000005 Eurasia Group
#4766 0.000016 Hoover Institution
#5555 0.000004 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6092 0.000012 Mercatus Center

system

#186 0.000262 Baseline
#272 0.000153 Reality-Based Community
#1130 0.000147 Think Tanks

Science

#765 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1073 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2256 0.000041 Biotech
#2773 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#3480 0.000028 Epidemiology Journalism
#7471 0.000006 EconTwitter
#8354 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#3365 0.000038 Founders

Crypto

#183 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#351 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#381 0.000006 Polkadot
#1284 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1974 0.000022 Cosmos
#2310 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2478 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2492 0.000004 Crypto Journalists
#2859 0.000015 Crypto Investing
#2939 0.000004 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3485 0.000004 Ethereum
#3759 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#6536 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective
#6574 0.000004 Crypto Infrastructure
#7898 0.000004 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#318 0.000006 Rust
#1070 0.000004 Zig

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