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?

Shamus Khan

Shamus Khan

@shamuskhan

wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

Prof @Princeton. Co-author, w/ @jennifershirsch, of Sexual Citizens: Sex, power, & Assault on Campus from @wwnorton. @NPR best book of 2020!

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#651 0.000230 Black Lives Matter
#878 0.000199 Heterodox Academy
#3525 0.000018 Harper's Open Letter
#4168 0.000028 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4484 0.000013 Rationality
#5027 0.000009 Degrowth
#5301 0.000006 Progress Studies
#5758 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5804 0.000001 Fair Vote
#5897 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5939 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5966 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#5978 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5981 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#6036 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#6268 0.000001 350.org
#6440 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6782 0.000007 Persuasion Community
#7352 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#7817 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#8248 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#8492 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#8640 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#8774 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8851 0.000000 Works in Progress
#9332 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#9935 0.000000 EFF

Crypto

#638 0.000221 Crypto Journalists
#4176 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5801 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5889 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#5963 0.000001 Polkadot
#7185 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#8051 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#8064 0.000000 Cosmos
#8999 0.000000 Public Goods Funding

Think Tanks

#942 0.000197 Earth Institute
#2090 0.000034 Niskanen Center
#2803 0.000049 Brookings
#5185 0.000016 Mercatus Center
#6141 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#6200 0.000001 Belfer Center
#6386 0.000001 Urban Institute
#6588 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6965 0.000001 Cato Institute
#7893 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#8899 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#9038 0.000000 Berggruen Institute

Journalism

#749 0.000168 The Atlantic
#1106 0.000085 Palladium Magazine
#1114 0.000165 The New York Times
#2090 0.000034 Foreign Policy
#2322 0.000051 New Yorker
#6066 0.000001 The Information
#6554 0.000001 Stat News
#6824 0.000001 The Verge
#6934 0.000000 OANN
#6953 0.000000 Newsmax
#7420 0.000001 The Economist
#7929 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#8011 0.000001 CNBC
#8660 0.000001 Wired
#9053 0.000000 The Intercept
#9203 0.000001 Financial Times
#9595 0.000001 BuzzFeed

Science

#1083 0.000159 Epidemiology Journalism
#2899 0.000033 EconTwitter
#5355 0.000016 ClimateTwitter
#6292 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6702 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#8217 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

system

#5526 0.000023 Think Tanks
#7631 0.000018 Baseline

Venture Capital

#5776 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5803 0.000001 Founders Fund
#6203 0.000001 Accel
#6575 0.000001 Sequioa
#6976 0.000001 Y Combinator
#7570 0.000000 Bessemer
#7804 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#8026 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#8116 0.000000 Index Ventures
#8360 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#8455 0.000000 Homebrew
#9317 0.000000 Village Global
#9691 0.000000 Initialized Capital

Software Engineering

#5884 0.000001 Rust
#7091 0.000000 Zig

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