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?

Zak Kukoff

Zak Kukoff

@zck

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#25 0.006160 Founders Fund
#56 0.002157 Benchmark Capital
#60 0.002112 Khosla Ventures
#70 0.001705 Initialized Capital
#103 0.001380 Village Global
#125 0.001073 Homebrew
#139 0.001152 Sutter Hill Ventures
#154 0.000788 A16Z
#207 0.000752 My Climate Journey
#256 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#372 0.000465 Y Combinator
#520 0.000235 Sequioa
#797 0.000005 Accel
#807 0.000061 Bessemer
#2195 0.000003 Index Ventures

Journalism

#43 0.002655 Techcrunch
#665 0.000005 The Information
#681 0.000155 Palladium Magazine
#980 0.000003 Newsmax
#998 0.000003 OANN
#1196 0.000005 Stat News
#1323 0.000107 Foreign Policy
#1503 0.000075 Ars Technica
#1610 0.000005 The Verge
#2012 0.000067 Bloomberg Opinion
#2134 0.000005 The Economist
#2690 0.000006 Reuters
#2719 0.000005 CNBC
#2903 0.000005 The Daily Beast
#3675 0.000029 Recode
#3891 0.000005 Wired
#4043 0.000005 Financial Times
#4200 0.000003 The Intercept
#4668 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#5192 0.000005 The Los Angeles Times
#5719 0.000019 The New York Times
#6151 0.000005 VICE
#6577 0.000018 The Atlantic
#6674 0.000005 Washington Post
#7346 0.000004 The Dispatch
#7981 0.000005 Wall Street Journal
#9379 0.000003 The New York Post

Culture and Political Economy

#103 0.001231 Progress Studies
#110 0.000964 The Long Now Foundation
#212 0.000659 Social Epistemology
#217 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#267 0.000005 Fair Vote
#307 0.000431 Works in Progress
#401 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#417 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#454 0.000005 Existential Risks
#526 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#546 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#568 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#595 0.000246 RadicalxChange
#611 0.000196 Rationality
#786 0.000005 350.org
#930 0.000150 Bismark Analysis
#975 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#996 0.000164 Heterodox Academy
#1264 0.000103 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1265 0.000065 Populist Libertarians
#1799 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#1961 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#3690 0.000005 Anarachists
#3996 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4001 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4710 0.000003 EFF
#5059 0.000012 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5547 0.000009 Persuasion Community
#6246 0.000003 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6337 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
#6380 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#6561 0.000003 Degrowth
#9352 0.000003 Ecomodernists

Crypto

#181 0.000796 Crypto VC
#264 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#429 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#461 0.000262 Crypto Infrastructure
#462 0.000005 Polkadot
#537 0.000247 IDEO Founder Collective
#642 0.000175 Crypto Angels
#950 0.000142 Public Goods Funding
#1235 0.000047 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1328 0.000081 Ethereum
#1362 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2541 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2576 0.000003 Cosmos
#2604 0.000019 Crypto Investing
#2988 0.000009 Decentralized Web

Think Tanks

#516 0.000307 Mercatus Center
#713 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#768 0.000005 Belfer Center
#975 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1178 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1323 0.000107 Niskanen Center
#1561 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1658 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1791 0.000022 Adam Smith Institute
#2708 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#3354 0.000010 Hudson Institute
#3457 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#3874 0.000003 Earth Institute
#3933 0.000033 American Enterprise Institute
#3933 0.000033 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5399 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#5622 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7035 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7874 0.000004 Hoover Institution

system

#1663 0.000088 Think Tanks
#9727 0.000022 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#1934 0.000072 Founders

Science

#843 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1159 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#2394 0.000039 Biotech
#2903 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#4322 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#8222 0.000005 EconTwitter
#8930 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#399 0.000005 Rust
#1150 0.000003 Zig

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