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?

nilay patel

nilay patel

@reckless

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#90 0.001976 The Verge
#142 0.000785 Recode
#170 0.000581 Ars Technica
#203 0.000803 CNBC
#254 0.000621 Wall Street Journal
#409 0.000494 Wired
#501 0.000230 Techcrunch
#1139 0.000163 The New York Times
#2763 0.000047 Bloomberg Opinion
#2849 0.000045 The Atlantic
#2861 0.000001 The Information
#3026 0.000001 OANN
#3033 0.000001 Newsmax
#3297 0.000004 Reuters
#3374 0.000001 Stat News
#3487 0.000028 VICE
#3819 0.000007 Financial Times
#4307 0.000001 The Economist
#4597 0.000010 Washington Post
#4919 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5131 0.000012 The Dispatch
#5136 0.000009 The New York Post
#5648 0.000001 The Intercept
#6381 0.000014 New Yorker
#6739 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6753 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7343 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9703 0.000001 Foreign Policy

Venture Capital

#154 0.000920 Homebrew
#593 0.000254 A16Z
#1678 0.000081 Initialized Capital
#1817 0.000006 Index Ventures
#2521 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2565 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2998 0.000001 Accel
#3353 0.000007 Village Global
#3377 0.000001 Sequioa
#3718 0.000001 Bessemer
#3847 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4069 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4303 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4626 0.000006 Khosla Ventures
#4672 0.000001 Benchmark Capital

Informal Community

#515 0.000226 Founders

Think Tanks

#427 0.000118 Eurasia Group
#812 0.000223 Earth Institute
#2932 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2985 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3173 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3397 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3832 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4248 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4560 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#4822 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5427 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7231 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7803 0.000007 Mercatus Center
#9275 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9404 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9703 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Culture and Political Economy

#1020 0.000121 The Long Now Foundation
#1137 0.000140 Progress Studies
#2022 0.000047 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2497 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2544 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2651 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2682 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2721 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2753 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2756 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2800 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3030 0.000001 350.org
#3209 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3596 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4117 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4334 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4715 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4744 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4874 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5012 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5267 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5700 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5715 0.000009 Harper's Open Letter
#5728 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6372 0.000001 EFF
#7426 0.000001 Anarachists
#8238 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9205 0.000001 Rationality
#9431 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#1990 0.000021 Cosmos
#2136 0.000050 IDEO Founder Collective
#2543 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2645 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2715 0.000001 Polkadot
#3303 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4259 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4309 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5249 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5398 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7083 0.000001 Ethereum
#7233 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7862 0.000001 Crypto Investing

system

#6245 0.000025 Baseline
#8672 0.000040 Reality-Based Community

Science

#3065 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3474 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5149 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6422 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9216 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2654 0.000001 Rust
#3180 0.000001 Zig

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