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?

Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam

@ramez

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#24 0.003429 My Climate Journey
#296 0.000624 Sutter Hill Ventures
#476 0.000302 Initialized Capital
#516 0.000313 Y Combinator
#793 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#863 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1309 0.000002 Accel
#1511 0.000094 Benchmark Capital
#1711 0.000002 Sequioa
#2106 0.000052 Khosla Ventures
#2152 0.000059 A16Z
#2352 0.000030 Village Global
#2609 0.000001 Bessemer
#3151 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3944 0.000001 Homebrew

Think Tanks

#40 0.002537 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#748 0.000071 Eurasia Group
#956 0.000148 Niskanen Center
#1235 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1294 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1304 0.000122 Mercatus Center
#1490 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1497 0.000080 Council on Foreign Relations
#1539 0.000086 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1724 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2178 0.000013 Berggruen Institute
#2191 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2810 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3221 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4066 0.000021 Hoover Institution
#5158 0.000023 American Enterprise Institute
#5158 0.000023 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5270 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6132 0.000018 Brookings
#6592 0.000012 Center for American Progress
#7751 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9376 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#166 0.000674 Ecomodernists
#446 0.000360 Social Epistemology
#504 0.000254 The Long Now Foundation
#673 0.000236 Progress Studies
#721 0.000167 Rationality
#752 0.000226 Environmental Journalists
#761 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#810 0.000002 Fair Vote
#934 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#957 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#994 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1051 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1070 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1096 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1314 0.000002 350.org
#1503 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1671 0.000045 Degrowth
#1766 0.000010 Climate Solutions
#1779 0.000058 Persuasion Community
#1951 0.000069 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2035 0.000032 Effective Altruism
#2086 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2485 0.000034 Works in Progress
#3247 0.000021 Harper's Open Letter
#3591 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3851 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3924 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4117 0.000004 Anarachists
#4727 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5409 0.000001 EFF
#7334 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7503 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9014 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Science

#319 0.000491 ClimateTwitter
#770 0.000175 EconTwitter
#1363 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1722 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3551 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5473 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8393 0.000001 Biotech

Journalism

#313 0.000347 Bloomberg Opinion
#956 0.000148 Foreign Policy
#1174 0.000002 The Information
#1654 0.000047 Palladium Magazine
#1718 0.000002 Stat News
#1803 0.000012 Techcrunch
#1877 0.000001 OANN
#1878 0.000001 Newsmax
#2083 0.000002 The Verge
#2666 0.000002 The Economist
#3008 0.000035 Ars Technica
#3275 0.000002 CNBC
#3381 0.000028 The Intercept
#3424 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4144 0.000023 Recode
#4299 0.000002 Wired
#4546 0.000002 Financial Times
#5166 0.000022 The New York Times
#5250 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5686 0.000007 VICE
#5854 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6822 0.000002 Reuters
#6954 0.000017 The Atlantic
#7815 0.000005 Wall Street Journal
#8842 0.000002 Washington Post
#9303 0.000001 The Dispatch

Crypto

#549 0.000331 Public Goods Funding
#777 0.000182 Ethereum
#807 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#946 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#997 0.000002 Polkadot
#1801 0.000065 Crypto VC
#2189 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2192 0.000015 Cosmos
#3086 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3177 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3273 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3945 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#4138 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8388 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8936 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

system

#2306 0.000060 Think Tanks
#7047 0.000020 Baseline
#8947 0.000033 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#937 0.000002 Rust
#2040 0.000001 Zig

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