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?

Philip Bump

Philip Bump

@pbump

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#77 0.001768 The Dispatch
#217 0.000490 The Atlantic
#254 0.000632 Foreign Policy
#289 0.000559 Wall Street Journal
#333 0.000367 Washington Post
#341 0.000398 Recode
#399 0.000319 CNBC
#487 0.000138 Reuters
#525 0.000354 The New York Times
#647 0.000192 New Yorker
#665 0.000186 Ars Technica
#745 0.000169 Bloomberg Opinion
#782 0.000174 The Verge
#886 0.000104 The Daily Beast
#1029 0.000122 VICE
#1150 0.000002 The Information
#1181 0.000123 The Los Angeles Times
#1403 0.000002 Newsmax
#1410 0.000002 OANN
#1691 0.000002 Stat News
#2056 0.000009 Techcrunch
#2638 0.000002 The Economist
#3061 0.000021 The New York Post
#4280 0.000002 Wired
#4457 0.000002 The Intercept
#4522 0.000002 Financial Times
#5223 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5420 0.000002 Palladium Magazine

Think Tanks

#220 0.000551 American Enterprise Institute
#220 0.000551 National Bureau of Economic Research
#254 0.000632 Niskanen Center
#440 0.000381 Earth Institute
#670 0.000078 Eurasia Group
#1030 0.000156 Mercatus Center
#1209 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1234 0.000116 Brookings
#1268 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1291 0.000121 Center for American Progress
#1354 0.000091 Council on Foreign Relations
#1464 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1698 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#1749 0.000021 Berggruen Institute
#1837 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2077 0.000051 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#2162 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3201 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#6899 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#6925 0.000004 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8153 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8702 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Venture Capital

#290 0.000581 Homebrew
#767 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#837 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1284 0.000002 Accel
#1524 0.000090 Initialized Capital
#1686 0.000002 Sequioa
#2178 0.000002 Bessemer
#2203 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2632 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2707 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2839 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3240 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3947 0.000011 Khosla Ventures
#4367 0.000002 Village Global

Culture and Political Economy

#248 0.000524 Moderate Conservatism
#632 0.000194 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#735 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#784 0.000002 Fair Vote
#909 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#931 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#968 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1025 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1045 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1072 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1144 0.000119 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1288 0.000119 Social Epistemology
#1290 0.000002 350.org
#1337 0.000112 Progress Studies
#1458 0.000079 Environmental Journalists
#1477 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1877 0.000043 Harper's Open Letter
#2216 0.000018 Anarachists
#2383 0.000041 Persuasion Community
#2509 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2691 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3179 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3244 0.000025 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3264 0.000033 Ecomodernists
#3455 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3490 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3899 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4319 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4335 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4735 0.000011 The Long Now Foundation
#5039 0.000002 EFF
#7428 0.000002 Degrowth
#7633 0.000002 Rationality

system

#440 0.000201 Baseline
#929 0.000103 Reality-Based Community
#4294 0.000031 Think Tanks

Science

#844 0.000197 Epidemiology Journalism
#1340 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1696 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3522 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8104 0.000002 Biotech

Crypto

#781 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#920 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#971 0.000002 Polkadot
#1743 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2742 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2865 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2912 0.000002 Cosmos
#3430 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3608 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4719 0.000002 Ethereum
#5157 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5730 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7775 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8216 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#912 0.000002 Rust
#1573 0.000002 Zig

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