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?

Bhaskar Sunkara

Bhaskar Sunkara

@sunraysunray

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#180 0.000767 The Intercept
#723 0.000180 BuzzFeed
#751 0.000198 Foreign Policy
#1250 0.000098 New Yorker
#1973 0.000066 The Dispatch
#2357 0.000023 Palladium Magazine
#2609 0.000001 The Information
#2955 0.000001 OANN
#2962 0.000001 Newsmax
#3121 0.000001 Stat News
#3450 0.000001 The Verge
#4061 0.000001 The Economist
#4520 0.000010 Washington Post
#4654 0.000001 CNBC
#4693 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4743 0.000025 The Atlantic
#5516 0.000001 Wired
#5926 0.000001 Financial Times
#6337 0.000002 Reuters
#6863 0.000006 The New York Post
#7110 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7968 0.000001 VICE
#9294 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9865 0.000001 Recode

Think Tanks

#751 0.000198 Niskanen Center
#1619 0.000025 Berggruen Institute
#2384 0.000061 American Enterprise Institute
#2384 0.000061 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2665 0.000046 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2676 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2732 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2920 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2965 0.000034 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#3141 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3582 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4155 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4580 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6236 0.000008 Hoover Institution
#6378 0.000001 Earth Institute
#9198 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9220 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9628 0.000009 Council on Foreign Relations

Culture and Political Economy

#629 0.000189 Ecomodernists
#1137 0.000072 Harper's Open Letter
#1399 0.000055 Degrowth
#1552 0.000065 Environmental Journalists
#2236 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2283 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2391 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2422 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2460 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2496 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2498 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2542 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2770 0.000001 350.org
#2949 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3266 0.000027 Moderate Conservatism
#3518 0.000005 Anarachists
#3573 0.000033 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4055 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4250 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4648 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4689 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4812 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4918 0.000013 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4947 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5206 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5530 0.000009 Persuasion Community
#5643 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5664 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6312 0.000001 EFF
#7536 0.000002 Rationality
#8416 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8934 0.000001 Progress Studies

system

#7094 0.000020 Baseline

Science

#2805 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3217 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4913 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5079 0.000018 ClimateTwitter
#6367 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9162 0.000001 Biotech

Crypto

#2282 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2386 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2455 0.000001 Polkadot
#3236 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4190 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4241 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4291 0.000001 Cosmos
#5186 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5328 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6981 0.000001 Ethereum
#6996 0.000006 Crypto VC
#7154 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7791 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9442 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Venture Capital

#2260 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2311 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2742 0.000001 Accel
#3127 0.000001 Sequioa
#3598 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3650 0.000001 Bessemer
#4005 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4196 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4240 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4608 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4832 0.000001 Homebrew
#5348 0.000003 Khosla Ventures
#5728 0.000001 Village Global
#5947 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Software Engineering

#2395 0.000001 Rust
#3116 0.000001 Zig

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