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?

Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok

@ATabarrok

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#3 0.022747 Mercatus Center
#166 0.000741 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#381 0.000325 Cato Institute
#494 0.000268 Brookings
#620 0.000197 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1064 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1121 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1320 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1324 0.000106 Niskanen Center
#1553 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2476 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2493 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#2793 0.000051 American Enterprise Institute
#2793 0.000051 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2956 0.000034 Hoover Institution
#3062 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4226 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4968 0.000002 Earth Institute
#6021 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6231 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#6904 0.000011 Center for American Progress

Crypto

#59 0.002435 Public Goods Funding
#89 0.001398 Ethereum
#165 0.001203 Crypto Political Economy
#491 0.000241 Crypto Infrastructure
#631 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#719 0.000200 Crypto VC
#763 0.000112 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#819 0.000092 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#820 0.000003 Polkadot
#1181 0.000071 Decentralized Web
#1205 0.000050 Cosmos
#1442 0.000079 Crypto Journalists
#1566 0.000045 Crypto Investing
#1747 0.000029 Crypto Angels
#3699 0.000022 IDEO Founder Collective

Culture and Political Economy

#52 0.001990 Rationality
#58 0.002107 Progress Studies
#72 0.001279 Effective Altruism
#86 0.000944 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#89 0.001168 The Long Now Foundation
#121 0.001055 Works in Progress
#303 0.000493 Bismark Analysis
#464 0.000342 Social Epistemology
#475 0.000298 RadicalxChange
#584 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#633 0.000003 Fair Vote
#668 0.000266 Climate Solutions
#761 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#781 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#820 0.000003 Existential Risks
#877 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#895 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#924 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1043 0.000155 Heterodox Academy
#1141 0.000003 350.org
#1328 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1744 0.000060 Persuasion Community
#1746 0.000037 Populist Libertarians
#2327 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#3351 0.000019 Harper's Open Letter
#3363 0.000006 Anarachists
#4523 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5206 0.000002 EFF
#7128 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7272 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7436 0.000008 Ecomodernists
#7462 0.000006 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7755 0.000002 Degrowth

Science

#68 0.001820 EconTwitter
#1194 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1543 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2180 0.000043 Biotech
#3381 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5242 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

system

#72 0.000999 Think Tanks
#174 0.000177 Reality-Based Community
#334 0.000218 Baseline

Venture Capital

#177 0.000806 Village Global
#617 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#636 0.000229 Initialized Capital
#692 0.000003 Founders Fund
#793 0.000161 Khosla Ventures
#1077 0.000133 A16Z
#1144 0.000003 Accel
#1429 0.000013 Y Combinator
#1555 0.000003 Sequioa
#2373 0.000002 Bessemer
#2818 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2906 0.000002 Index Ventures
#3030 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3420 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3755 0.000002 Homebrew

Journalism

#295 0.000394 Palladium Magazine
#560 0.000217 Ars Technica
#671 0.000183 Bloomberg Opinion
#962 0.000146 Recode
#1011 0.000003 The Information
#1324 0.000106 Foreign Policy
#1550 0.000003 Stat News
#1621 0.000002 Newsmax
#1625 0.000002 OANN
#1929 0.000003 The Verge
#2264 0.000070 The New York Times
#2500 0.000003 The Economist
#3107 0.000003 CNBC
#3276 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3651 0.000009 Financial Times
#3912 0.000024 The Dispatch
#3980 0.000031 The Atlantic
#4166 0.000003 Wired
#4597 0.000002 The Intercept
#5099 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5180 0.000003 Techcrunch
#5489 0.000002 Reuters
#5676 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6320 0.000010 Wall Street Journal
#6586 0.000003 VICE
#8397 0.000003 Washington Post

Informal Community

#714 0.000174 Founders

Software Engineering

#762 0.000003 Rust
#1787 0.000002 Zig

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