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?

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

President, @CSPICenterOrg. Research Fellow, Defense Priorities. Former @ColumbiaSIPA. Post pictures from books. richardhanania.substack.com

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#9 0.012246 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#283 0.000372 Persuasion Community
#316 0.000509 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#621 0.000238 Bismark Analysis
#687 0.000108 Harper's Open Letter
#915 0.000129 Rationality
#1871 0.000077 Progress Studies
#2691 0.000018 Heterodox Academy
#2893 0.000021 Works in Progress
#3454 0.000012 Effective Altruism
#3992 0.000004 Anarachists
#4489 0.000012 The Long Now Foundation
#5630 0.000014 Ecomodernists
#5936 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5982 0.000001 Fair Vote
#6075 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#6117 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#6142 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#6156 0.000001 Existential Risks
#6158 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#6213 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#6446 0.000001 350.org
#6617 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6725 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#7642 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#7868 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7920 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#8146 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8751 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#9332 0.000000 EFF

Think Tanks

#219 0.000403 Belfer Center
#883 0.000166 Niskanen Center
#900 0.000182 Mercatus Center
#1040 0.000029 Cato Institute
#1320 0.000089 Atlantic Council
#3650 0.000010 Eurasia Group
#4409 0.000028 American Enterprise Institute
#4409 0.000028 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4680 0.000016 Hoover Institution
#6318 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#6561 0.000001 Urban Institute
#6762 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#7640 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8032 0.000007 Center for American Progress
#8165 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#8432 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#9486 0.000009 Council on Foreign Relations
#9486 0.000000 Earth Institute

Journalism

#368 0.000306 Palladium Magazine
#883 0.000166 Foreign Policy
#928 0.000163 The Intercept
#2502 0.000010 The Daily Beast
#2853 0.000025 The New York Post
#4489 0.000028 Bloomberg Opinion
#6108 0.000011 Wall Street Journal
#6242 0.000001 The Information
#6291 0.000000 OANN
#6315 0.000000 Newsmax
#6730 0.000001 Stat News
#7000 0.000001 The Verge
#7590 0.000001 The Economist
#8179 0.000001 CNBC
#8831 0.000001 Wired
#9370 0.000001 Financial Times
#9759 0.000001 BuzzFeed

system

#1644 0.000089 Think Tanks
#9586 0.000013 Baseline

Science

#2659 0.000035 Biotech
#6469 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6877 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#8387 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9225 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#5977 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#6064 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#6141 0.000001 Polkadot
#6551 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#7394 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#7428 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#7441 0.000000 Cosmos
#8383 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#8787 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8970 0.000003 Crypto VC

Venture Capital

#5953 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5981 0.000001 Founders Fund
#6381 0.000001 Accel
#6749 0.000001 Sequioa
#6936 0.000000 Bessemer
#7147 0.000001 Y Combinator
#7187 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#7404 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#7480 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7748 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#7866 0.000000 Homebrew
#8730 0.000000 Village Global
#9091 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#9675 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#6059 0.000001 Rust
#6454 0.000000 Zig

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