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?

Timothy Sandefur

Timothy Sandefur

@TimothySandefur

sandefur.typepad.com

VP @GoldwaterInst, adjunct @CatoInstitute, contrib ed. @TheObjStd, “Tim the Lawyer” @AandGShow, but here I speak only for myself. Obviously.

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#95 0.002328 Cato Institute
#392 0.000324 Hoover Institution
#565 0.000281 Mercatus Center
#670 0.000217 American Enterprise Institute
#670 0.000217 National Bureau of Economic Research
#823 0.000036 Heritage Foundation
#2331 0.000020 Hudson Institute
#2942 0.000011 Niskanen Center
#3473 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3529 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3715 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4776 0.000025 Brookings
#5338 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5524 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6345 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7395 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7847 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8122 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

system

#91 0.000960 Think Tanks
#504 0.000193 Baseline
#860 0.000105 Reality-Based Community

Culture and Political Economy

#227 0.000599 Claremont Institute
#329 0.000363 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#868 0.000179 Moderate Conservatism
#1349 0.000082 Bismark Analysis
#1423 0.000102 Social Epistemology
#1826 0.000059 Rationality
#2361 0.000037 Works in Progress
#2568 0.000050 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2690 0.000006 Populist Libertarians
#2718 0.000035 Persuasion Community
#2829 0.000040 Progress Studies
#3050 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3096 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3199 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3233 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3265 0.000027 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3273 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3301 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3350 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3580 0.000001 350.org
#3757 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4348 0.000003 Anarachists
#4568 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4821 0.000012 Harper's Open Letter
#5495 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5683 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5808 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6629 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6645 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7281 0.000001 EFF
#8450 0.000003 The Long Now Foundation

Journalism

#341 0.000403 The Dispatch
#1561 0.000063 The New York Post
#2106 0.000029 Palladium Magazine
#2942 0.000011 Foreign Policy
#3399 0.000001 The Information
#3912 0.000001 Stat News
#4033 0.000001 OANN
#4051 0.000001 Newsmax
#4225 0.000001 The Verge
#4808 0.000002 Financial Times
#4840 0.000001 The Economist
#5416 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5439 0.000001 CNBC
#6063 0.000002 Reuters
#6228 0.000001 Wired
#6481 0.000001 The Intercept
#7216 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7832 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8695 0.000001 VICE
#8709 0.000013 The Atlantic

Science

#3610 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4021 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5674 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7007 0.000007 EconTwitter
#7265 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#3095 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3192 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3262 0.000001 Polkadot
#4311 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5240 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5261 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5303 0.000001 Cosmos
#6227 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6472 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8296 0.000001 Ethereum
#8325 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8901 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Venture Capital

#3071 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3114 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3540 0.000001 Accel
#3914 0.000001 Sequioa
#4365 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4722 0.000001 Bessemer
#5040 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5254 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5258 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5626 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5809 0.000001 Homebrew
#6695 0.000001 Village Global
#6970 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7779 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#3196 0.000001 Rust
#4197 0.000001 Zig

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