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?

Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper

@sarahcpr

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#226 0.000621 Urban Institute
#317 0.000394 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#463 0.000311 Center for American Progress
#504 0.000177 Adam Smith Institute
#915 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#936 0.000061 Eurasia Group
#974 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1000 0.000143 Brookings
#1080 0.000104 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1385 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1594 0.000039 Hudson Institute
#1723 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1774 0.000086 American Enterprise Institute
#1774 0.000086 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1869 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2658 0.000046 Council on Foreign Relations
#2682 0.000016 Earth Institute
#2920 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3161 0.000031 Hoover Institution
#3903 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#4095 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#6497 0.000011 Mercatus Center

Journalism

#276 0.000509 Techcrunch
#377 0.000414 BuzzFeed
#478 0.000122 Stat News
#499 0.000234 New Yorker
#684 0.000181 Bloomberg Opinion
#865 0.000003 The Information
#928 0.000189 Wired
#940 0.000184 Financial Times
#1502 0.000002 Newsmax
#1509 0.000002 OANN
#1631 0.000025 CNBC
#1742 0.000078 Recode
#1793 0.000003 The Verge
#1817 0.000087 Wall Street Journal
#1895 0.000010 The Economist
#1915 0.000086 The New York Times
#2152 0.000052 Ars Technica
#2383 0.000013 The Daily Beast
#2872 0.000005 Reuters
#3877 0.000031 The Atlantic
#3903 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#4526 0.000002 The Intercept
#5460 0.000008 The New York Post
#5497 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5521 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5749 0.000008 The Dispatch
#6444 0.000003 VICE
#6628 0.000005 Washington Post

Venture Capital

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#466 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#491 0.000310 Benchmark Capital
#497 0.000267 Khosla Ventures
#521 0.000224 Sequioa
#533 0.000339 My Climate Journey
#546 0.000003 Founders Fund
#700 0.000208 A16Z
#715 0.000275 Sutter Hill Ventures
#998 0.000003 Accel
#1390 0.000016 Index Ventures
#1943 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2262 0.000002 Bessemer
#3658 0.000002 Homebrew
#4286 0.000004 Initialized Capital

Science

#580 0.000273 Epidemiology Journalism
#1045 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1389 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2209 0.000074 ClimateTwitter
#2955 0.000032 EconTwitter
#3209 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#3853 0.000022 Biotech

Culture and Political Economy

#430 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#479 0.000003 Fair Vote
#591 0.000252 Black Lives Matter
#610 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#628 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#666 0.000003 Existential Risks
#668 0.000192 The Long Now Foundation
#730 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#748 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#775 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#992 0.000003 350.org
#1180 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1366 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2044 0.000057 Social Epistemology
#2171 0.000034 RadicalxChange
#2214 0.000043 Works in Progress
#2221 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2234 0.000049 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2485 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2711 0.000017 Heterodox Academy
#2773 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3336 0.000020 Harper's Open Letter
#3405 0.000024 Persuasion Community
#3583 0.000022 Moderate Conservatism
#3583 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4393 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4630 0.000011 Degrowth
#5107 0.000002 EFF
#5236 0.000007 Progress Studies
#5512 0.000002 Anarachists
#6109 0.000012 Ecomodernists
#7152 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7711 0.000002 Rationality

Crypto

#477 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#629 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#673 0.000003 Polkadot
#864 0.000160 Crypto VC
#1005 0.000121 IDEO Founder Collective
#1027 0.000127 Crypto Journalists
#1832 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1917 0.000032 Crypto Investing
#2211 0.000035 Crypto Infrastructure
#2592 0.000009 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2827 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2922 0.000010 Decentralized Web
#2991 0.000002 Cosmos
#3600 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3896 0.000003 Ethereum

Informal Community

#1903 0.000073 Founders

system

#3760 0.000035 Think Tanks
#4945 0.000043 Baseline
#8392 0.000054 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#611 0.000003 Rust
#1671 0.000002 Zig

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