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?

Justin Wolfers

Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#1 0.073691 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6 0.014844 Brookings
#209 0.000762 Urban Institute
#274 0.000558 Mercatus Center
#355 0.000393 American Enterprise Institute
#355 0.000393 National Bureau of Economic Research
#426 0.000195 RAND Corporation
#439 0.000240 Cato Institute
#490 0.000257 Hoover Institution
#826 0.000186 Center for American Progress
#894 0.000129 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1518 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1948 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2010 0.000017 Adam Smith Institute
#2593 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2826 0.000007 Berggruen Institute
#3171 0.000009 Niskanen Center
#3433 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4114 0.000028 Council on Foreign Relations
#4354 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#5582 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7233 0.000002 Hudson Institute

Science

#30 0.005242 EconTwitter
#1324 0.000131 Epidemiology Journalism
#1588 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1688 0.000060 Biotech
#1982 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2432 0.000065 ClimateTwitter
#3773 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

#40 0.002004 The New York Times
#261 0.000398 Bloomberg Opinion
#524 0.000263 The Dispatch
#875 0.000133 The Economist
#1056 0.000156 Financial Times
#1399 0.000002 The Information
#1940 0.000002 Stat News
#2152 0.000001 OANN
#2155 0.000001 Newsmax
#2292 0.000002 The Verge
#3171 0.000009 Foreign Policy
#3373 0.000017 Washington Post
#3486 0.000032 New Yorker
#3496 0.000002 CNBC
#3619 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4019 0.000003 Reuters
#4483 0.000002 Wired
#4979 0.000001 The Intercept
#5465 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6056 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6064 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6950 0.000002 VICE
#8252 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9234 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9308 0.000001 Recode

system

#36 0.000300 Reality-Based Community
#56 0.001075 Think Tanks
#443 0.000201 Baseline

Culture and Political Economy

#396 0.000348 Works in Progress
#510 0.000310 Progress Studies
#995 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1043 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1160 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1188 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1227 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1279 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1294 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1317 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1371 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1395 0.000102 Moderate Conservatism
#1494 0.000094 Social Epistemology
#1541 0.000002 350.org
#1590 0.000077 Ecomodernists
#1725 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1743 0.000057 RadicalxChange
#2222 0.000043 Rationality
#2800 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3082 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3198 0.000021 Harper's Open Letter
#3296 0.000022 The Long Now Foundation
#3334 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3804 0.000004 Anarachists
#4091 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4178 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4937 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4970 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5636 0.000001 EFF
#6619 0.000003 Degrowth
#7769 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Venture Capital

#523 0.000249 Khosla Ventures
#579 0.000316 My Climate Journey
#1025 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1092 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1425 0.000093 Village Global
#1531 0.000002 Accel
#1934 0.000002 Sequioa
#2440 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2879 0.000001 Bessemer
#3417 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3497 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3888 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4173 0.000001 Homebrew
#5229 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#9487 0.000005 A16Z

Crypto

#1041 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1169 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1228 0.000002 Polkadot
#2457 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3438 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3523 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3564 0.000001 Cosmos
#4419 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4480 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5937 0.000001 Ethereum
#6223 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6835 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8686 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9270 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1168 0.000002 Rust
#2316 0.000001 Zig

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