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?

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#9 0.000020 Schumacher Circle
#23 0.004163 RadicalxChange
#59 0.000020 Fair Vote
#70 0.001474 Black Lives Matter
#196 0.000020 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#198 0.000604 EFF
#212 0.000020 Extinction Rebellion
#246 0.000020 Existential Risks
#315 0.000331 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#327 0.000512 Heterodox Academy
#327 0.000020 Claremont Institute
#344 0.000020 Ecosocialism
#370 0.000020 Sierra Clib
#384 0.000183 Harper's Open Letter
#494 0.000326 Social Epistemology
#583 0.000020 350.org
#649 0.000182 Ecomodernists
#776 0.000020 Environmental Defense Fund
#846 0.000201 Environmental Journalists
#1053 0.000112 Rationality
#1159 0.000101 Persuasion Community
#1429 0.000085 Works in Progress
#1747 0.000016 Climate Solutions
#1777 0.000015 Bismark Analysis
#2042 0.000023 Anarachists
#2243 0.000015 Populist Libertarians
#2376 0.000045 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2666 0.000039 Moderate Conservatism
#3115 0.000015 Effective Altruism
#3426 0.000018 Degrowth
#3436 0.000027 Progress Studies
#3736 0.000018 The Long Now Foundation
#4138 0.000015 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Science

#16 0.004125 Epidemiology Journalism
#254 0.000671 Epidimiology Twitter
#446 0.000365 ClimateTwitter
#471 0.000292 EconTwitter
#492 0.000232 Biotech
#649 0.000020 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#826 0.000020 Philosophy Twitter

Venture Capital

#30 0.002981 Homebrew
#57 0.000020 Standard Crypto
#120 0.001571 Y Combinator
#165 0.000020 Founders Fund
#181 0.000676 Initialized Capital
#614 0.000020 Accel
#988 0.000020 Sequioa
#1396 0.000015 Index Ventures
#1431 0.000096 A16Z
#1583 0.000077 Khosla Ventures
#1606 0.000015 Bessemer
#2176 0.000015 My Climate Journey
#2368 0.000015 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2720 0.000015 Benchmark Capital
#2977 0.000015 Village Global

Journalism

#39 0.002560 The Atlantic
#82 0.001009 New Yorker
#124 0.001240 Foreign Policy
#141 0.001252 The Daily Beast
#151 0.000892 The New York Times
#192 0.000858 Wired
#214 0.000492 Ars Technica
#396 0.000349 Recode
#461 0.000020 The Information
#492 0.000312 The Intercept
#566 0.000116 Reuters
#660 0.000186 Bloomberg Opinion
#680 0.000015 OANN
#758 0.000135 Washington Post
#767 0.000015 Newsmax
#886 0.000020 Stat News
#1063 0.000050 Techcrunch
#1187 0.000118 The Dispatch
#1405 0.000020 The Verge
#1474 0.000082 VICE
#1701 0.000020 The Economist
#1724 0.000044 Palladium Magazine
#1780 0.000020 CNBC
#1909 0.000047 The New York Post
#3046 0.000024 BuzzFeed
#3100 0.000020 Financial Times
#3463 0.000020 The Los Angeles Times
#3723 0.000028 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#92 0.002080 Urban Institute
#124 0.001240 Niskanen Center
#273 0.000484 Center for American Progress
#311 0.000400 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#380 0.000332 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#495 0.000268 Brookings
#515 0.000020 RAND Corporation
#543 0.000020 Belfer Center
#620 0.000195 Council on Foreign Relations
#721 0.000109 Berggruen Institute
#878 0.000020 Heritage Foundation
#911 0.000204 Earth Institute
#925 0.000061 Eurasia Group
#1135 0.000020 Cato Institute
#1166 0.000102 Hoover Institution
#1245 0.000015 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1856 0.000020 Adam Smith Institute
#2176 0.000020 Atlantic Council
#2712 0.000015 Hudson Institute
#4675 0.000026 American Enterprise Institute
#4675 0.000026 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4946 0.000017 Mercatus Center

Crypto

#56 0.000020 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#163 0.000963 Crypto Journalists
#232 0.000020 Crypto Political Economy
#238 0.000020 Polkadot
#600 0.000189 Crypto Infrastructure
#1205 0.000015 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1861 0.000015 Public Goods Funding
#1927 0.000020 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2055 0.000015 Crypto Angels
#2187 0.000015 Cosmos
#2525 0.000015 Decentralized Web
#2571 0.000015 Ethereum
#2710 0.000017 Crypto Investing
#3015 0.000032 IDEO Founder Collective
#4616 0.000015 Crypto VC

system

#136 0.000192 Reality-Based Community
#486 0.000195 Baseline
#1257 0.000126 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#1712 0.000081 Founders

Software Engineering

#194 0.000020 Rust
#982 0.000015 Zig

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