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?

Carissa Byrne Hessick

Carissa Byrne Hessick

@CBHessick

Criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina. Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project (@ppp_unc).

20778 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#123 0.000959 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#915 0.000168 Moderate Conservatism
#1146 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1193 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1311 0.000107 Heterodox Academy
#1311 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1339 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1377 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1426 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1441 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1464 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1689 0.000002 350.org
#1874 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1946 0.000069 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2377 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2527 0.000030 Social Epistemology
#2544 0.000039 Persuasion Community
#2650 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2811 0.000030 Rationality
#2923 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3142 0.000022 Harper's Open Letter
#3415 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3519 0.000025 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3741 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4112 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4531 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4572 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5248 0.000001 EFF
#5794 0.000001 Anarachists
#7746 0.000001 Progress Studies
#7819 0.000001 Degrowth
#9121 0.000004 Ecomodernists

Think Tanks

#219 0.000607 Cato Institute
#455 0.000291 Brookings
#699 0.000266 Earth Institute
#996 0.000152 American Enterprise Institute
#996 0.000152 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1610 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1665 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1757 0.000062 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1860 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2094 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2509 0.000010 Berggruen Institute
#2547 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2573 0.000015 Niskanen Center
#2924 0.000035 Hoover Institution
#3500 0.000033 Mercatus Center
#3577 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#7055 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7375 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#7503 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8232 0.000011 Council on Foreign Relations
#9111 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#285 0.000496 The Dispatch
#854 0.000143 The Economist
#1178 0.000115 The Atlantic
#1537 0.000014 Reuters
#1545 0.000002 The Information
#1677 0.000001 Newsmax
#1679 0.000001 OANN
#2078 0.000002 Stat News
#2428 0.000002 The Verge
#2573 0.000015 Foreign Policy
#3565 0.000015 Washington Post
#3646 0.000002 CNBC
#3746 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4603 0.000002 Wired
#4630 0.000001 The Intercept
#4927 0.000002 Financial Times
#5580 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5671 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6170 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6739 0.000014 The New York Times
#6996 0.000016 Bloomberg Opinion
#7064 0.000002 VICE
#8144 0.000001 Techcrunch
#8843 0.000001 Recode
#9413 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Science

#602 0.000191 Biotech
#1735 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2131 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3636 0.000012 Epidemiology Journalism
#3918 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

system

#1632 0.000089 Think Tanks
#4788 0.000048 Baseline
#9479 0.000025 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#1175 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1241 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1678 0.000002 Accel
#2080 0.000002 Sequioa
#2422 0.000001 Bessemer
#2580 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2867 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#2956 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3079 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3194 0.000024 Khosla Ventures
#3470 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3798 0.000001 Homebrew
#4623 0.000001 Village Global
#4790 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#1192 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1317 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1376 0.000002 Polkadot
#1999 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2989 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3096 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3141 0.000001 Cosmos
#3823 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3922 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5153 0.000001 Ethereum
#5559 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6172 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8135 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8638 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1315 0.000002 Rust
#1842 0.000001 Zig

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