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?

Gary Legum

Gary Legum

@GaryLegum

Writer. Curmudgeon. Past work at The Contemptor, IJR, Salon, Wonkette, Daily Beast, Alternet, McSweeney's. Rants every Friday: garylegum.substack.com

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

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#6990 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
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#8916 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8947 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9129 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9585 0.000008 American Enterprise Institute
#9585 0.000008 National Bureau of Economic Research

Culture and Political Economy

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#2352 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2399 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2506 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
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#2886 0.000001 350.org
#2902 0.000029 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
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#3867 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4028 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4452 0.000001 RadicalxChange
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#5458 0.000001 Effective Altruism
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#8732 0.000001 Rationality
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#9108 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

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#832 0.000180 Foreign Policy
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#3518 0.000029 The Dispatch
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#7214 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8074 0.000001 VICE

Crypto

#2398 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2501 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2570 0.000001 Polkadot
#3040 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
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#4102 0.000001 Cosmos
#4990 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
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#6748 0.000001 Ethereum
#6946 0.000001 Decentralized Web
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#9259 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9974 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

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#3820 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4000 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4050 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4417 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4665 0.000001 Homebrew
#5557 0.000001 Village Global
#5773 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6765 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Science

#2921 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3332 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5016 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6205 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9009 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2509 0.000001 Rust
#2914 0.000001 Zig

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