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?

Corey Quinn

Corey Quinn

@QuinnyPig

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#194 0.000898 Sutter Hill Ventures
#245 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#336 0.000005 Founders Fund
#355 0.000185 Accel
#555 0.000266 A16Z
#743 0.000215 Benchmark Capital
#1195 0.000005 Sequioa
#1352 0.000018 Index Ventures
#1754 0.000005 Y Combinator
#1856 0.000003 Bessemer
#2303 0.000052 Homebrew
#2350 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#3910 0.000003 Village Global
#4342 0.000003 Initialized Capital
#5300 0.000003 Khosla Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#190 0.000621 EFF
#206 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#256 0.000005 Fair Vote
#390 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#406 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#425 0.000290 The Long Now Foundation
#443 0.000005 Existential Risks
#458 0.000348 Progress Studies
#507 0.000319 Social Epistemology
#515 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#536 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#557 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#603 0.000153 Anarachists
#775 0.000005 350.org
#964 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#1186 0.000097 Rationality
#1592 0.000049 Bismark Analysis
#1855 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#2072 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2883 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3141 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3189 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3617 0.000003 Works in Progress
#4053 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4061 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#6406 0.000003 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6513 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#6742 0.000003 Degrowth
#6907 0.000015 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#9657 0.000003 Ecomodernists
#9941 0.000003 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Journalism

#315 0.000357 Ars Technica
#654 0.000005 The Information
#703 0.000132 Techcrunch
#1056 0.000003 Newsmax
#1072 0.000003 OANN
#1126 0.000055 CNBC
#1185 0.000005 Stat News
#1354 0.000102 The Dispatch
#1600 0.000005 The Verge
#1734 0.000066 Financial Times
#2122 0.000005 The Economist
#2883 0.000005 The Daily Beast
#3880 0.000005 Wired
#3890 0.000003 Reuters
#4245 0.000003 The Intercept
#4322 0.000029 Bloomberg Opinion
#4387 0.000021 Recode
#4651 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#4779 0.000025 The New York Times
#4896 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5153 0.000005 The Los Angeles Times
#5231 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#6019 0.000012 Wall Street Journal
#6132 0.000005 VICE
#6576 0.000005 Washington Post
#9875 0.000003 The New York Post

Informal Community

#2021 0.000069 Founders

Crypto

#253 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#418 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#451 0.000005 Polkadot
#1430 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1505 0.000058 Crypto Infrastructure
#2439 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2591 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2631 0.000003 Cosmos
#2773 0.000011 Ethereum
#2849 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3174 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4339 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#5007 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#7098 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective
#8750 0.000003 Crypto VC

system

#8397 0.000016 Baseline

Think Tanks

#702 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#758 0.000005 Belfer Center
#965 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1166 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1643 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1675 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2410 0.000012 Adam Smith Institute
#2694 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#3593 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#4032 0.000003 Earth Institute
#5231 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5669 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5677 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#5888 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#7164 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8237 0.000003 Hoover Institution
#9337 0.000004 Mercatus Center

Science

#832 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1149 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#2880 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#4457 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#7852 0.000003 Biotech
#8080 0.000005 EconTwitter
#8849 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#388 0.000005 Rust
#1223 0.000003 Zig

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