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?

Fred Wellman

Fred Wellman

@FPWellman

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#43 0.003087 Atlantic Council
#599 0.000200 Council on Foreign Relations
#721 0.000198 Brookings
#1420 0.000110 Center for American Progress
#1956 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2010 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2206 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2267 0.000056 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2435 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2693 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2883 0.000002 Cato Institute
#4364 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#4457 0.000028 American Enterprise Institute
#4457 0.000028 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5168 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6203 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6589 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6600 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7626 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9445 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute
#9580 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#298 0.000462 Moderate Conservatism
#1501 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1548 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1662 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1689 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1731 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1773 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1785 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1814 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2002 0.000048 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2037 0.000002 350.org
#2225 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2476 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2921 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3017 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3511 0.000023 Persuasion Community
#3513 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3767 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3777 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3840 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4206 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4627 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4659 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5340 0.000001 EFF
#5972 0.000001 Anarachists
#6124 0.000007 The Long Now Foundation
#6163 0.000012 Ecomodernists
#7889 0.000001 Progress Studies
#7990 0.000001 Degrowth
#8033 0.000001 Rationality
#9460 0.000010 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#9710 0.000004 Harper's Open Letter

Journalism

#702 0.000236 The Los Angeles Times
#1099 0.000122 The Atlantic
#1788 0.000001 Newsmax
#1789 0.000001 OANN
#1891 0.000002 The Information
#2285 0.000043 BuzzFeed
#2418 0.000002 Stat News
#2435 0.000054 The Intercept
#2756 0.000002 The Verge
#2859 0.000005 Reuters
#3373 0.000002 The Economist
#3974 0.000002 CNBC
#4051 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4418 0.000028 Bloomberg Opinion
#4892 0.000002 Wired
#5257 0.000002 Financial Times
#5653 0.000017 New Yorker
#5770 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6368 0.000006 The Dispatch
#6589 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6827 0.000002 Techcrunch
#7372 0.000002 VICE
#8954 0.000001 Recode
#9719 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

system

#2524 0.000054 Think Tanks

Science

#2083 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2480 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2878 0.000053 Epidemiology Journalism
#4248 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#4757 0.000016 Biotech
#8392 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9451 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#4830 0.000024 Founders

Crypto

#1547 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1661 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1726 0.000002 Polkadot
#2102 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3092 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3193 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3238 0.000001 Cosmos
#3987 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4051 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5346 0.000001 Ethereum
#5704 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6335 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8270 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8837 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1528 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1587 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2025 0.000002 Accel
#2416 0.000002 Sequioa
#2525 0.000001 Bessemer
#2905 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2958 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3067 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3172 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3564 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3880 0.000001 Homebrew
#4722 0.000001 Village Global
#4888 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6064 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#1668 0.000002 Rust
#1953 0.000001 Zig

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