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?

Zack Kanter

Zack Kanter

@zackkanter

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#40 0.002968 Khosla Ventures
#51 0.006936 Standard Crypto
#65 0.001930 Founders Fund
#77 0.001776 Village Global
#87 0.001323 Initialized Capital
#152 0.001088 Sutter Hill Ventures
#176 0.000714 A16Z
#475 0.000318 Sequioa
#756 0.000251 Homebrew
#757 0.000111 Index Ventures
#829 0.000191 Benchmark Capital
#980 0.000003 Accel
#1928 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2006 0.000002 Bessemer
#2478 0.000002 My Climate Journey

Culture and Political Economy

#55 0.002200 Progress Studies
#63 0.001903 The Long Now Foundation
#76 0.001781 Social Epistemology
#151 0.000756 Rationality
#275 0.000560 Bismark Analysis
#412 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#461 0.000003 Fair Vote
#553 0.000165 Populist Libertarians
#593 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#610 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#648 0.000003 Existential Risks
#712 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#731 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#750 0.000162 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#758 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#765 0.000179 Works in Progress
#975 0.000003 350.org
#1111 0.000144 Heterodox Academy
#1163 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1795 0.000039 Effective Altruism
#1796 0.000065 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1975 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2254 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2682 0.000043 Ecomodernists
#3021 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3741 0.000017 Harper's Open Letter
#4186 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4520 0.000014 Persuasion Community
#4879 0.000002 EFF
#4951 0.000002 Anarachists
#6690 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#6752 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7121 0.000002 Degrowth

Crypto

#170 0.000833 Crypto VC
#459 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#494 0.000378 Public Goods Funding
#611 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#655 0.000003 Polkadot
#668 0.000155 Crypto Investing
#706 0.000206 Ethereum
#769 0.000140 Crypto Infrastructure
#1006 0.000121 IDEO Founder Collective
#1194 0.000101 Crypto Journalists
#1210 0.000049 Cosmos
#1261 0.000058 Crypto Angels
#1570 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2843 0.000005 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2850 0.000011 Decentralized Web

Think Tanks

#595 0.000272 Mercatus Center
#898 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#958 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1157 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1368 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1733 0.000070 Niskanen Center
#1854 0.000003 Cato Institute
#1918 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2898 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3095 0.000044 American Enterprise Institute
#3095 0.000044 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3791 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#3821 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute
#4339 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5209 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5774 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6136 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7401 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8484 0.000003 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#847 0.000003 The Information
#1215 0.000002 Newsmax
#1225 0.000002 OANN
#1393 0.000003 Stat News
#1733 0.000070 Foreign Policy
#1778 0.000003 The Verge
#1893 0.000071 Bloomberg Opinion
#1963 0.000035 Palladium Magazine
#2343 0.000003 The Economist
#2440 0.000045 Ars Technica
#2625 0.000006 Techcrunch
#2954 0.000003 CNBC
#3119 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3851 0.000003 Reuters
#4029 0.000003 Wired
#4230 0.000003 Financial Times
#4332 0.000002 The Intercept
#4931 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5478 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5895 0.000012 Wall Street Journal
#6419 0.000003 VICE
#6447 0.000018 The Atlantic
#6690 0.000005 The Dispatch
#6841 0.000013 New Yorker
#7608 0.000005 The New York Post
#7719 0.000003 Washington Post
#8281 0.000002 Recode

Science

#1028 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1372 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2039 0.000047 Biotech
#3193 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4742 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9410 0.000003 EconTwitter
#9855 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#3440 0.000037 Founders

Software Engineering

#593 0.000003 Rust
#1381 0.000002 Zig

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