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?

Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz

@stevenstrogatz

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#331 0.000332 Persuasion Community
#360 0.000450 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#780 0.000100 Harper's Open Letter
#1721 0.000075 Social Epistemology
#1834 0.000075 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3185 0.000024 Rationality
#4588 0.000012 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4747 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4793 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4888 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4928 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4966 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4967 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4982 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5036 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5267 0.000001 350.org
#5437 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6431 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6909 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#7563 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7571 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#7635 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#7842 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7951 0.000000 Works in Progress
#8430 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#8461 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#9043 0.000000 EFF

Venture Capital

#417 0.000377 Benchmark Capital
#1057 0.000040 Y Combinator
#4765 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4799 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5207 0.000001 Accel
#5572 0.000001 Sequioa
#6345 0.000012 A16Z
#6627 0.000000 Bessemer
#6886 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#7104 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#7167 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7582 0.000000 Homebrew
#8435 0.000000 Village Global
#8798 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#9393 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Science

#1576 0.000052 Epidimiology Twitter
#2181 0.000050 EconTwitter
#4953 0.000015 Biotech
#5290 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5698 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#8943 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

system

#4804 0.000047 Baseline
#8907 0.000034 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#3012 0.000042 Founders

Journalism

#3616 0.000037 The New York Times
#4270 0.000023 Wall Street Journal
#5066 0.000001 The Information
#5564 0.000001 Stat News
#5565 0.000007 Washington Post
#5850 0.000001 The Verge
#5981 0.000000 OANN
#6002 0.000000 Newsmax
#6454 0.000001 The Economist
#6969 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#7045 0.000001 CNBC
#7501 0.000011 New Yorker
#7727 0.000001 Wired
#8179 0.000000 The Intercept
#8261 0.000001 Financial Times
#8687 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9288 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9321 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Crypto

#1863 0.000033 Crypto Investing
#2287 0.000013 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4790 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4882 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4903 0.000010 Crypto Infrastructure
#4955 0.000001 Polkadot
#6241 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#7093 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#7127 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#7145 0.000000 Cosmos
#7557 0.000005 Crypto VC
#8087 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#9503 0.000000 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#3365 0.000013 Eurasia Group
#5144 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5204 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5386 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5599 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5984 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6218 0.000011 Mercatus Center
#6929 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7784 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#8131 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#9191 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9873 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Software Engineering

#4878 0.000001 Rust
#6141 0.000000 Zig

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