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?

Shannon Watts

Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#208 0.000676 The Daily Beast
#502 0.000238 Bloomberg Opinion
#629 0.000171 Washington Post
#1075 0.000003 The Information
#1187 0.000119 Recode
#1505 0.000116 The New York Times
#1583 0.000002 Newsmax
#1589 0.000002 OANN
#1610 0.000003 Stat News
#1642 0.000025 CNBC
#1990 0.000003 The Verge
#2255 0.000043 BuzzFeed
#2412 0.000049 New Yorker
#2562 0.000003 The Economist
#3203 0.000032 VICE
#3287 0.000005 Techcrunch
#4214 0.000003 Wired
#4451 0.000003 Financial Times
#4571 0.000002 The Intercept
#4672 0.000003 Reuters
#5163 0.000009 The New York Post
#5359 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#5604 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5740 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5995 0.000020 The Atlantic
#8855 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8914 0.000002 The Dispatch

Venture Capital

#486 0.000403 Sutter Hill Ventures
#685 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#759 0.000003 Founders Fund
#981 0.000200 Homebrew
#1208 0.000003 Accel
#1329 0.000141 My Climate Journey
#1437 0.000014 Index Ventures
#1614 0.000003 Sequioa
#2134 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2338 0.000002 Bessemer
#2416 0.000030 Benchmark Capital
#2904 0.000035 Initialized Capital
#3077 0.000038 A16Z
#4538 0.000002 Village Global
#5918 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Think Tanks

#408 0.000352 Center for American Progress
#815 0.000203 Mercatus Center
#919 0.000124 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1075 0.000134 Brookings
#1129 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1188 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1382 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1618 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1689 0.000072 Council on Foreign Relations
#1770 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2082 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2809 0.000007 Berggruen Institute
#3126 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3628 0.000011 Eurasia Group
#4918 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5275 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5307 0.000011 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5359 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5567 0.000020 American Enterprise Institute
#5567 0.000020 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6301 0.000008 Hoover Institution
#8833 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#515 0.000214 EFF
#652 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#701 0.000003 Fair Vote
#828 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#849 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#872 0.000143 Persuasion Community
#886 0.000003 Existential Risks
#944 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#963 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#991 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1054 0.000148 Progress Studies
#1208 0.000003 350.org
#1321 0.000105 Black Lives Matter
#1395 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2293 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2620 0.000040 Moderate Conservatism
#2653 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2847 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3151 0.000035 Ecomodernists
#3334 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3603 0.000033 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3606 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3628 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3658 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3912 0.000016 Harper's Open Letter
#4044 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4459 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#5622 0.000002 Anarachists
#7150 0.000005 The Long Now Foundation
#7214 0.000002 Degrowth
#7226 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7805 0.000002 Rationality

Informal Community

#660 0.000190 Founders

Science

#676 0.000178 Biotech
#1260 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1615 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1700 0.000045 Epidimiology Twitter
#2330 0.000069 ClimateTwitter
#3225 0.000028 EconTwitter
#5196 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

system

#5174 0.000038 Baseline
#8293 0.000015 Think Tanks
#8999 0.000032 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#699 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#839 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#888 0.000003 Polkadot
#1907 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2902 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2910 0.000033 IDEO Founder Collective
#3011 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3060 0.000002 Cosmos
#3707 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3817 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5017 0.000002 Ethereum
#5433 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6030 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#8507 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#830 0.000003 Rust
#1750 0.000002 Zig

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