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?

Zach Weinberg ™

Zach Weinberg ™

@zachweinberg

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#26 0.004220 Khosla Ventures
#38 0.002517 Homebrew
#125 0.001248 Sutter Hill Ventures
#156 0.000085 Founders Fund
#167 0.000855 Village Global
#171 0.000708 Initialized Capital
#174 0.000722 A16Z
#175 0.000849 My Climate Journey
#439 0.000354 Benchmark Capital
#545 0.000065 Accel
#629 0.000142 Index Ventures
#752 0.000092 Sequioa
#755 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1026 0.000048 Y Combinator
#1561 0.000019 Bessemer

Science

#180 0.000567 Biotech
#1330 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1684 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3511 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5151 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

Journalism

#390 0.000510 Wired
#1139 0.000002 The Information
#1413 0.000023 Techcrunch
#1536 0.000002 Newsmax
#1543 0.000002 OANN
#1634 0.000077 New Yorker
#1680 0.000002 Stat News
#2050 0.000002 The Verge
#2243 0.000059 Recode
#2314 0.000057 The Atlantic
#2626 0.000002 The Economist
#3233 0.000002 CNBC
#3392 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3837 0.000014 BuzzFeed
#4510 0.000002 Financial Times
#4547 0.000002 The Intercept
#4705 0.000026 Bloomberg Opinion
#5561 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5816 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6002 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6716 0.000002 VICE
#7158 0.000002 Reuters
#8438 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8750 0.000002 Washington Post
#8953 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#498 0.000302 Crypto VC
#672 0.000196 IDEO Founder Collective
#769 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#908 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#959 0.000002 Polkadot
#1864 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2595 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2714 0.000026 Crypto Infrastructure
#2858 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2970 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3022 0.000002 Cosmos
#3765 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4945 0.000002 Ethereum
#5364 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5953 0.000002 Crypto Investing

Think Tanks

#662 0.000184 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1198 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1256 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1305 0.000045 Eurasia Group
#1452 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1687 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2151 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2370 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3193 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4128 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4483 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#4798 0.000025 American Enterprise Institute
#4798 0.000025 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4848 0.000002 Earth Institute
#6002 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7152 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7787 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9219 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#723 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#772 0.000002 Fair Vote
#876 0.000145 The Long Now Foundation
#897 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#920 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#933 0.000168 Progress Studies
#956 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1013 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1033 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1061 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1279 0.000002 350.org
#1466 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1936 0.000061 Social Epistemology
#2252 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2445 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2803 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3292 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3567 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3616 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3656 0.000019 Rationality
#4005 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4422 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4450 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5137 0.000002 EFF
#5556 0.000002 Anarachists
#7055 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7189 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7648 0.000002 Degrowth

Informal Community

#1024 0.000131 Founders

Software Engineering

#900 0.000002 Rust
#1705 0.000002 Zig

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