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?

Rich Greenfield, LightShed

Rich Greenfield, LightShed

@RichLightShed

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#112 0.001517 The Information
#123 0.000889 Recode
#192 0.000782 The New York Times
#264 0.000383 The New York Post
#463 0.000249 CNBC
#539 0.000220 Bloomberg Opinion
#1964 0.000010 Techcrunch
#3747 0.000001 Stat News
#4063 0.000001 The Verge
#4580 0.000020 Wall Street Journal
#4585 0.000001 OANN
#4606 0.000001 Newsmax
#4680 0.000001 The Economist
#5269 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6078 0.000001 Wired
#6325 0.000004 VICE
#6539 0.000001 Financial Times
#6949 0.000001 The Intercept
#7069 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7196 0.000002 Reuters
#7685 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8064 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8654 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8933 0.000012 The Atlantic
#9615 0.000008 New Yorker

Venture Capital

#423 0.000337 A16Z
#613 0.000204 Khosla Ventures
#725 0.000074 Bessemer
#2903 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2947 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3378 0.000001 Accel
#3754 0.000001 Sequioa
#4209 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5550 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5769 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5796 0.000001 Index Ventures
#6139 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#6297 0.000001 Homebrew
#7187 0.000001 Village Global
#7478 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Think Tanks

#545 0.000269 American Enterprise Institute
#545 0.000269 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3309 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3363 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3551 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3773 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4064 0.000025 Mercatus Center
#4197 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5181 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6201 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6847 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7907 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8608 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Crypto

#583 0.000256 Crypto VC
#2612 0.000018 Crypto Investing
#2927 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3026 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3096 0.000001 Polkadot
#3904 0.000020 IDEO Founder Collective
#4851 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5763 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5763 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5815 0.000001 Cosmos
#6287 0.000005 Crypto Infrastructure
#6745 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#7019 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8837 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8877 0.000001 Ethereum

Science

#1335 0.000131 Epidemiology Journalism
#3445 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3853 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5509 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Culture and Political Economy

#918 0.000097 Populist Libertarians
#1327 0.000113 Social Epistemology
#2666 0.000033 Rationality
#2882 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2929 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3032 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3065 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3105 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3131 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3136 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3183 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3412 0.000001 350.org
#3589 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5092 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5573 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5760 0.000005 Progress Studies
#6074 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#6201 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6316 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6662 0.000001 Works in Progress
#7129 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#7157 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7777 0.000001 EFF
#8836 0.000001 Anarachists
#9477 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9774 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Informal Community

#2008 0.000070 Founders

system

#5990 0.000027 Baseline
#9948 0.000021 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#3033 0.000001 Rust
#4744 0.000001 Zig

Automatically Detected Communities