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?

Laura Deming

Laura Deming

@LauraDeming

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#290 0.000473 A16Z
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#8952 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

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#4399 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
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Think Tanks

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#9400 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Software Engineering

#486 0.000213 Zig
#4391 0.000001 Rust

Journalism

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#9724 0.000001 VICE

Crypto

#734 0.000094 Cosmos
#865 0.000119 Crypto Infrastructure
#1264 0.000101 Crypto VC
#2015 0.000053 IDEO Founder Collective
#2216 0.000025 Crypto Investing
#4299 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4392 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4464 0.000001 Polkadot
#4638 0.000002 Ethereum
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Science

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#6799 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8471 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Informal Community

#6182 0.000018 Founders

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