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?

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman

@EthanZ

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#88 0.000991 EFF
#687 0.000217 Black Lives Matter
#692 0.000133 Effective Altruism
#1501 0.000074 RadicalxChange
#2982 0.000042 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3629 0.000021 Persuasion Community
#3828 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3874 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3976 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4009 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4050 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4061 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4072 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4125 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4353 0.000001 350.org
#4528 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4811 0.000011 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#5040 0.000007 Progress Studies
#5644 0.000014 Ecomodernists
#5714 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6199 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6688 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#6754 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6937 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#7123 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7251 0.000000 Works in Progress
#9081 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation
#9433 0.000000 Anarachists
#9999 0.000000 Moderate Conservatism

Science

#448 0.000346 Epidemiology Journalism
#4378 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4792 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5865 0.000010 Biotech
#6397 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

#410 0.000292 The Atlantic
#767 0.000134 Palladium Magazine
#1033 0.000179 The New York Times
#1272 0.000122 Financial Times
#1812 0.000066 VICE
#2494 0.000041 Wired
#2520 0.000007 CNBC
#2530 0.000007 Techcrunch
#3134 0.000037 New Yorker
#3768 0.000028 Recode
#4083 0.000013 Washington Post
#4159 0.000001 The Information
#4448 0.000003 Reuters
#4670 0.000001 Stat News
#4975 0.000001 The Verge
#5238 0.000000 OANN
#5256 0.000000 Newsmax
#5573 0.000001 The Economist
#5755 0.000016 Ars Technica
#6124 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#7519 0.000000 The Intercept
#7689 0.000005 Wall Street Journal
#7876 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8506 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Crypto

#549 0.000263 Crypto Journalists
#3815 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3873 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3946 0.000015 Crypto Infrastructure
#3965 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4037 0.000001 Polkadot
#5497 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6398 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6430 0.000000 Cosmos
#7370 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#9464 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9540 0.000000 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#2772 0.000044 Council on Foreign Relations
#2864 0.000018 Eurasia Group
#4239 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4296 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4482 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4699 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5100 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5347 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5593 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#6061 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6780 0.000006 Hoover Institution
#7455 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8496 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9197 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Informal Community

#4434 0.000027 Founders

system

#8182 0.000016 Baseline

Venture Capital

#3848 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3885 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4300 0.000001 Accel
#4674 0.000001 Sequioa
#5110 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5889 0.000000 Bessemer
#6166 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6383 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6434 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6743 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6889 0.000000 Homebrew
#7761 0.000000 Village Global
#8054 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#8753 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#3972 0.000001 Rust
#5397 0.000000 Zig

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