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?

Taylor Lorenz

Taylor Lorenz

@TaylorLorenz

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#8 0.005657 Homebrew
#83 0.000010 Standard Crypto
#153 0.000818 Initialized Capital
#180 0.000704 A16Z
#188 0.000010 Founders Fund
#205 0.000874 Sutter Hill Ventures
#230 0.000672 Khosla Ventures
#238 0.000613 Benchmark Capital
#279 0.000507 Village Global
#296 0.000337 Bessemer
#639 0.000010 Accel
#709 0.000157 Y Combinator
#780 0.000109 Index Ventures
#1028 0.000010 Sequioa
#2183 0.000007 My Climate Journey

Journalism

#37 0.005345 The Information
#41 0.002834 Techcrunch
#44 0.001470 Ars Technica
#47 0.001897 Recode
#59 0.001975 The Intercept
#100 0.001463 Wired
#146 0.000719 OANN
#155 0.001309 The Verge
#179 0.000567 The Atlantic
#195 0.000775 Wall Street Journal
#196 0.000751 VICE
#202 0.000712 The Daily Beast
#240 0.000705 CNBC
#257 0.000644 BuzzFeed
#257 0.000631 The New York Times
#260 0.000366 Stat News
#416 0.000227 The New York Post
#487 0.000245 Bloomberg Opinion
#522 0.000264 The Dispatch
#618 0.000176 Washington Post
#741 0.000169 New Yorker
#826 0.000007 Newsmax
#863 0.000138 The Economist
#989 0.000157 The Los Angeles Times
#1049 0.000033 Reuters
#1860 0.000058 Financial Times
#2635 0.000014 Foreign Policy
#3154 0.000011 Palladium Magazine

Science

#162 0.000855 Epidemiology Journalism
#671 0.000010 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#940 0.000010 Philosophy Twitter
#1516 0.000067 Biotech
#2467 0.000010 Epidimiology Twitter
#5975 0.000010 EconTwitter
#6817 0.000010 ClimateTwitter

Culture and Political Economy

#37 0.000010 Schumacher Circle
#87 0.000010 Fair Vote
#222 0.000010 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#239 0.000010 Extinction Rebellion
#275 0.000010 Existential Risks
#340 0.000468 Progress Studies
#343 0.000493 Environmental Journalists
#355 0.000010 Claremont Institute
#371 0.000010 Ecosocialism
#380 0.000451 Heterodox Academy
#392 0.000250 Effective Altruism
#394 0.000010 Sierra Clib
#421 0.000292 The Long Now Foundation
#458 0.000347 Social Epistemology
#584 0.000267 Moderate Conservatism
#609 0.000010 350.org
#631 0.000189 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#803 0.000182 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#803 0.000010 Environmental Defense Fund
#1060 0.000111 Rationality
#1170 0.000111 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1307 0.000099 EFF
#1784 0.000007 Climate Solutions
#1920 0.000053 Persuasion Community
#1948 0.000007 Bismark Analysis
#1999 0.000040 Harper's Open Letter
#2623 0.000007 Populist Libertarians
#2657 0.000007 RadicalxChange
#2817 0.000009 Anarachists
#2980 0.000022 Degrowth
#3379 0.000007 Works in Progress
#3887 0.000007 Black Lives Matter
#5264 0.000016 Ecomodernists

system

#51 0.000415 Baseline
#60 0.000261 Reality-Based Community
#3480 0.000038 Think Tanks

Crypto

#84 0.000010 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#257 0.000010 Crypto Political Economy
#288 0.000010 Polkadot
#340 0.000411 IDEO Founder Collective
#529 0.000284 Crypto VC
#728 0.000096 Cosmos
#899 0.000114 Crypto Infrastructure
#1223 0.000007 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1651 0.000061 Crypto Journalists
#1823 0.000018 Public Goods Funding
#2246 0.000007 Crypto Angels
#2703 0.000007 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2854 0.000009 Ethereum
#3059 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3663 0.000009 Crypto Investing

Think Tanks

#541 0.000010 RAND Corporation
#556 0.000245 Brookings
#606 0.000010 Belfer Center
#814 0.000010 Urban Institute
#980 0.000010 Heritage Foundation
#982 0.000166 Mercatus Center
#1199 0.000155 Earth Institute
#1313 0.000007 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1378 0.000010 Cato Institute
#1681 0.000026 Adam Smith Institute
#1692 0.000090 American Enterprise Institute
#1692 0.000090 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1820 0.000066 Council on Foreign Relations
#2419 0.000010 Atlantic Council
#2635 0.000014 Niskanen Center
#2807 0.000014 Hudson Institute
#2851 0.000007 Berggruen Institute
#4178 0.000007 Eurasia Group
#4563 0.000018 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4918 0.000015 Hoover Institution
#5288 0.000019 Center for American Progress
#5469 0.000007 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Informal Community

#1740 0.000079 Founders

Software Engineering

#222 0.000010 Rust
#1002 0.000007 Zig

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