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?

Byrne Hobart

Byrne Hobart

@ByrneHobart

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#30 0.010428 Standard Crypto
#61 0.002195 Village Global
#198 0.000624 Initialized Capital
#211 0.000626 A16Z
#371 0.000361 Khosla Ventures
#414 0.000411 Sequioa
#496 0.000003 Founders Fund
#943 0.000003 Accel
#1011 0.000190 Homebrew
#1897 0.000003 Y Combinator
#1975 0.000002 Bessemer
#2318 0.000035 Benchmark Capital
#2448 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2450 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2650 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#21 0.005301 Bismark Analysis
#22 0.003604 Progress Studies
#28 0.003823 Social Epistemology
#36 0.002603 The Long Now Foundation
#59 0.001770 Rationality
#154 0.000824 Works in Progress
#330 0.000319 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#375 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#424 0.000003 Fair Vote
#557 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#573 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#611 0.000003 Existential Risks
#677 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#697 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#722 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#938 0.000003 350.org
#1126 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1162 0.000073 Effective Altruism
#1185 0.000109 RadicalxChange
#1949 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2032 0.000047 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2253 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2386 0.000050 Ecomodernists
#3266 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3280 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3632 0.000005 Anarachists
#4156 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4692 0.000014 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4851 0.000002 EFF
#6196 0.000008 Persuasion Community
#6257 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#7070 0.000002 Degrowth
#8431 0.000005 Harper's Open Letter

Journalism

#29 0.003811 Palladium Magazine
#234 0.000433 Bloomberg Opinion
#814 0.000003 The Information
#1102 0.000126 Foreign Policy
#1125 0.000104 Ars Technica
#1178 0.000002 Newsmax
#1189 0.000002 OANN
#1356 0.000003 Stat News
#1747 0.000003 The Verge
#2169 0.000008 Techcrunch
#2308 0.000003 The Economist
#2919 0.000003 CNBC
#3087 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3355 0.000037 The Atlantic
#3916 0.000003 Reuters
#4007 0.000003 Wired
#4189 0.000003 Financial Times
#4316 0.000002 The Intercept
#4889 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5028 0.000012 The Dispatch
#5275 0.000015 Recode
#5422 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6377 0.000003 VICE
#6477 0.000006 The New York Post
#7516 0.000003 Washington Post
#8520 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#151 0.000951 Crypto VC
#287 0.000656 Public Goods Funding
#422 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#424 0.000358 Ethereum
#546 0.000214 Crypto Infrastructure
#574 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#581 0.000183 Crypto Investing
#618 0.000003 Polkadot
#1013 0.000086 Crypto Angels
#1537 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1943 0.000020 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2682 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2728 0.000002 Cosmos
#2992 0.000009 Decentralized Web
#3030 0.000031 IDEO Founder Collective

Think Tanks

#147 0.000878 Mercatus Center
#864 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#922 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1102 0.000126 Niskanen Center
#1123 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1333 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1717 0.000089 American Enterprise Institute
#1717 0.000089 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1754 0.000023 Adam Smith Institute
#1808 0.000003 Cato Institute
#1871 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2864 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#2917 0.000013 Hudson Institute
#3762 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4270 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4466 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#5752 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7292 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#7366 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8468 0.000011 Brookings
#9010 0.000010 Council on Foreign Relations

Informal Community

#2395 0.000056 Founders

system

#3751 0.000035 Think Tanks

Science

#992 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1335 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3149 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4696 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#4986 0.000014 EconTwitter
#7965 0.000002 Biotech
#9722 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#556 0.000003 Rust
#1344 0.000002 Zig

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