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?

Bob Wachter

Bob Wachter

@Bob_Wachter

Lens Rankings

Science

#42 0.003744 Epidimiology Twitter
#585 0.000195 Biotech
#1230 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1585 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#5138 0.000018 ClimateTwitter
#5254 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Venture Capital

#49 0.002420 Khosla Ventures
#117 0.001098 Benchmark Capital
#360 0.000395 Initialized Capital
#480 0.000309 A16Z
#493 0.000151 Bessemer
#655 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#701 0.000270 My Climate Journey
#729 0.000003 Founders Fund
#792 0.000240 Homebrew
#887 0.000088 Y Combinator
#975 0.000153 Village Global
#1181 0.000003 Accel
#1456 0.000013 Index Ventures
#1589 0.000003 Sequioa
#2100 0.000055 Sutter Hill Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#48 0.002249 The Long Now Foundation
#76 0.001549 Progress Studies
#95 0.001410 Social Epistemology
#122 0.000868 Ecomodernists
#241 0.000443 Rationality
#545 0.000277 Bismark Analysis
#608 0.000290 Climate Solutions
#622 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#671 0.000003 Fair Vote
#799 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#819 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#857 0.000003 Existential Risks
#915 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#933 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#961 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1178 0.000003 350.org
#1288 0.000064 Harper's Open Letter
#1322 0.000099 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1326 0.000061 Effective Altruism
#1365 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1894 0.000054 Persuasion Community
#2274 0.000056 EFF
#2336 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3373 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3647 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3700 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4077 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4532 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5701 0.000001 Anarachists
#6549 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#7044 0.000002 Degrowth
#7282 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Journalism

#532 0.000376 Wired
#754 0.000039 Stat News
#1048 0.000003 The Information
#1282 0.000048 The Verge
#1630 0.000001 Newsmax
#1634 0.000001 OANN
#2137 0.000063 Bloomberg Opinion
#2536 0.000003 The Economist
#2540 0.000032 Financial Times
#2549 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2902 0.000044 The Atlantic
#3138 0.000003 CNBC
#3271 0.000023 The Los Angeles Times
#3277 0.000031 The Intercept
#3305 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4883 0.000021 New Yorker
#5128 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5635 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6591 0.000002 Reuters
#6627 0.000003 VICE
#6885 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#7325 0.000007 Wall Street Journal
#7991 0.000003 Washington Post
#8809 0.000001 Recode
#8968 0.000001 The Dispatch

Think Tanks

#485 0.000326 Mercatus Center
#502 0.000197 Berggruen Institute
#1100 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1159 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1355 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1590 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1663 0.000092 American Enterprise Institute
#1663 0.000092 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2053 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2489 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3097 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3252 0.000037 Council on Foreign Relations
#4973 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6090 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6658 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6885 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7207 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7281 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#7898 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9336 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Crypto

#669 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#809 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#858 0.000003 Polkadot
#873 0.000159 Crypto VC
#1675 0.000066 IDEO Founder Collective
#1951 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2945 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3053 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3100 0.000001 Cosmos
#3680 0.000016 Crypto Infrastructure
#3687 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#3761 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3869 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4221 0.000002 Ethereum
#4595 0.000004 Crypto Investing

system

#1427 0.000093 Reality-Based Community
#7306 0.000019 Baseline

Informal Community

#2393 0.000056 Founders

Software Engineering

#800 0.000003 Rust
#1795 0.000001 Zig

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