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?

Zander Furnas

Zander Furnas

@zfurnas

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#60 0.002924 Urban Institute
#398 0.000060 Belfer Center
#487 0.000317 Niskanen Center
#1140 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1175 0.000122 Brookings
#1629 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1883 0.000058 Hoover Institution
#1906 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1941 0.000030 Eurasia Group
#2094 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2099 0.000058 Council on Foreign Relations
#2203 0.000058 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2209 0.000013 Berggruen Institute
#2401 0.000059 Mercatus Center
#3136 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3352 0.000010 Hudson Institute
#4069 0.000032 American Enterprise Institute
#4069 0.000032 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4595 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5874 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7791 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8620 0.000006 Center for American Progress

Culture and Political Economy

#317 0.000479 Social Epistemology
#625 0.000192 Rationality
#663 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#712 0.000003 Fair Vote
#838 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#860 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#897 0.000003 Existential Risks
#955 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#974 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#1002 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1176 0.000111 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1176 0.000100 The Long Now Foundation
#1219 0.000003 350.org
#1295 0.000117 Progress Studies
#1406 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2098 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2204 0.000046 Persuasion Community
#2452 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2649 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3138 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3418 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3448 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3492 0.000005 Anarachists
#3864 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4279 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4299 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4368 0.000022 Ecomodernists
#4918 0.000012 Harper's Open Letter
#4999 0.000002 EFF
#6068 0.000005 Degrowth
#6887 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#6980 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8675 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Journalism

#423 0.000272 Bloomberg Opinion
#487 0.000317 Foreign Policy
#516 0.000240 Ars Technica
#1085 0.000003 The Information
#1357 0.000002 Newsmax
#1364 0.000002 OANN
#1482 0.000097 The Intercept
#1621 0.000003 Stat News
#1998 0.000003 The Verge
#2533 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2572 0.000003 The Economist
#3174 0.000003 CNBC
#3339 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4041 0.000003 Reuters
#4174 0.000030 The Atlantic
#4223 0.000003 Wired
#4459 0.000003 Financial Times
#4560 0.000004 Palladium Magazine
#5161 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5751 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6663 0.000003 VICE
#6956 0.000004 Washington Post
#8507 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8509 0.000002 Recode
#8876 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#570 0.000304 Public Goods Funding
#710 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#820 0.000166 Ethereum
#850 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#899 0.000003 Polkadot
#1698 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2697 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2827 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2874 0.000002 Cosmos
#3556 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3938 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#4161 0.000019 Crypto VC
#5055 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#7716 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8119 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#523 0.000278 Initialized Capital
#696 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#769 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1218 0.000003 Accel
#1624 0.000003 Sequioa
#2134 0.000002 Bessemer
#2143 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2213 0.000048 Khosla Ventures
#2414 0.000028 Village Global
#2592 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2662 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2698 0.000045 A16Z
#2797 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3202 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3559 0.000002 Homebrew

system

#934 0.000200 Think Tanks
#4928 0.000043 Baseline
#9545 0.000024 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1271 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1625 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2045 0.000085 Epidemiology Journalism
#3447 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5078 0.000014 Biotech

Software Engineering

#841 0.000003 Rust
#1525 0.000002 Zig

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