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?

Robert P. George

Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#15 0.006117 Heterodox Academy
#67 0.001482 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#68 0.001475 Moderate Conservatism
#234 0.000476 The Long Now Foundation
#276 0.000374 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#354 0.000311 Persuasion Community
#374 0.000194 Harper's Open Letter
#395 0.000383 Bismark Analysis
#508 0.000313 Progress Studies
#533 0.000220 Rationality
#601 0.000256 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#623 0.000258 Social Epistemology
#790 0.000173 Works in Progress
#832 0.000112 Effective Altruism
#1043 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1091 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1208 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1236 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1275 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1327 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1340 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1360 0.000058 Populist Libertarians
#1365 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1589 0.000002 350.org
#1773 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2753 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3274 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3807 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4610 0.000003 Anarachists
#4928 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5594 0.000001 EFF
#8361 0.000001 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#248 0.000530 Initialized Capital
#499 0.000266 Khosla Ventures
#765 0.000192 A16Z
#1073 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1140 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1578 0.000002 Accel
#1982 0.000002 Sequioa
#2485 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2831 0.000001 Bessemer
#3237 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3372 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3451 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3845 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4128 0.000001 Homebrew
#5013 0.000001 Village Global

Think Tanks

#247 0.000516 American Enterprise Institute
#247 0.000516 National Bureau of Economic Research
#321 0.000401 Hoover Institution
#471 0.000173 Hudson Institute
#913 0.000159 Niskanen Center
#929 0.000013 Heritage Foundation
#1092 0.000148 Mercatus Center
#1511 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1566 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1758 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1943 0.000063 Council on Foreign Relations
#2446 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3107 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3474 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4171 0.000030 Brookings
#4638 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5538 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6452 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7838 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8420 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9548 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#370 0.000301 Bloomberg Opinion
#442 0.000310 The Dispatch
#913 0.000159 Foreign Policy
#1004 0.000134 The Atlantic
#1447 0.000002 The Information
#1676 0.000101 The New York Times
#1981 0.000002 Stat News
#2056 0.000031 Palladium Magazine
#2103 0.000001 OANN
#2105 0.000001 Newsmax
#2334 0.000002 The Verge
#2580 0.000030 The New York Post
#2930 0.000002 The Economist
#3332 0.000034 Wall Street Journal
#3548 0.000002 CNBC
#3662 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4176 0.000004 Financial Times
#4522 0.000002 Wired
#4607 0.000010 Washington Post
#4937 0.000001 The Intercept
#5501 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6092 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6986 0.000002 VICE
#9267 0.000001 Recode
#9444 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9688 0.000001 Reuters

Crypto

#904 0.000150 Crypto VC
#1089 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1216 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1275 0.000002 Polkadot
#2197 0.000047 IDEO Founder Collective
#2409 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2785 0.000016 Crypto Investing
#2871 0.000005 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3395 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3484 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3521 0.000001 Cosmos
#4180 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4371 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5718 0.000007 Crypto Infrastructure
#5835 0.000001 Ethereum

system

#1118 0.000149 Think Tanks
#4627 0.000053 Baseline
#9223 0.000028 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1634 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2030 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3814 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5685 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#5967 0.000010 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1216 0.000002 Rust
#2268 0.000001 Zig

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