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?

Ben Golub

Ben Golub

@ben_golub

bengolub.net

economics + computer science professor @NorthwesternU; networks (learning, coordination, contagions, etc.); past: @Harvard @Stanford'12 @Quora @Caltech'07

18358 followers

Lens Rankings

Science

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Think Tanks

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#6048 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
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#7098 0.000014 American Enterprise Institute
#7098 0.000014 National Bureau of Economic Research
#7204 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8805 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Culture and Political Economy

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#742 0.000003 Fair Vote
#868 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
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#927 0.000003 Existential Risks
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#5611 0.000002 Anarachists
#6538 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
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#7220 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7705 0.000002 Degrowth

system

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#8605 0.000015 Baseline

Journalism

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#4484 0.000003 Financial Times
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#4822 0.000014 The Dispatch
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Informal Community

#9829 0.000010 Founders

Crypto

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#3695 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#5004 0.000002 Ethereum
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#8494 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

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#797 0.000003 Founders Fund
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#1649 0.000003 Sequioa
#2169 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2331 0.000002 Bessemer
#2777 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2861 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2991 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3381 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3719 0.000002 Homebrew
#4531 0.000002 Village Global
#4712 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5912 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#8826 0.000006 A16Z

Software Engineering

#871 0.000003 Rust
#1744 0.000002 Zig

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