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?

Clifford Asness

Clifford Asness

@CliffordAsness

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#8963 0.000000 Founders Fund
#9351 0.000000 Accel
#9702 0.000000 Sequioa

Think Tanks

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#743 0.000197 American Enterprise Institute
#743 0.000197 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1003 0.000114 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1464 0.000090 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1874 0.000082 Mercatus Center
#5011 0.000024 Brookings
#7138 0.000001 Eurasia Group
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#9530 0.000000 Urban Institute
#9698 0.000000 Heritage Foundation

Crypto

#773 0.000199 Public Goods Funding
#1137 0.000108 Ethereum
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#2393 0.000022 Crypto Investing
#5395 0.000008 Crypto Infrastructure
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#9123 0.000000 Polkadot

Journalism

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#9908 0.000000 The Verge

Culture and Political Economy

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#1766 0.000067 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2513 0.000037 The Long Now Foundation
#2696 0.000038 Moderate Conservatism
#2710 0.000043 Progress Studies
#2774 0.000022 Social Epistemology
#3807 0.000031 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#8925 0.000000 Schumacher Circle
#8968 0.000000 Fair Vote
#9049 0.000000 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#9103 0.000000 Extinction Rebellion
#9117 0.000000 Claremont Institute
#9124 0.000000 Ecosocialism
#9139 0.000000 Existential Risks
#9181 0.000000 Sierra Clib
#9418 0.000000 350.org
#9589 0.000000 Environmental Defense Fund

system

#3797 0.000035 Think Tanks

Science

#5497 0.000011 EconTwitter
#9442 0.000000 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#9850 0.000000 Philosophy Twitter

Software Engineering

#9040 0.000000 Rust
#9990 0.000000 Zig

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