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 Smith

Ben Smith

@benyt

nytimes.com

@nytimes media columnist. Fireworks enthusiast. Formerly @buzzfeednews. Beats working for a living. Send me scoops: ben.smith@nytimes.com.

336076 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#2 0.023487 BuzzFeed
#9 0.020791 The Information
#15 0.003702 The New York Times
#39 0.002242 Recode
#234 0.000598 Techcrunch
#257 0.000767 Financial Times
#286 0.000330 The New York Post
#325 0.000513 Wall Street Journal
#500 0.000135 Reuters
#757 0.000131 The Daily Beast
#771 0.000192 The Intercept
#808 0.000164 The Atlantic
#869 0.000185 The Los Angeles Times
#936 0.000126 The Verge
#1198 0.000050 CNBC
#1200 0.000074 Washington Post
#1553 0.000085 Bloomberg Opinion
#1940 0.000063 New Yorker
#1951 0.000057 Ars Technica
#2174 0.000001 OANN
#2177 0.000001 Newsmax
#2519 0.000002 Stat News
#2707 0.000044 The Dispatch
#3470 0.000002 The Economist
#4488 0.000004 Foreign Policy
#4982 0.000002 Wired
#6082 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7454 0.000002 VICE

Think Tanks

#206 0.000731 Earth Institute
#1487 0.000081 Council on Foreign Relations
#1969 0.000027 Hudson Institute
#2059 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2114 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2306 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2339 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2536 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2983 0.000002 Cato Institute
#4009 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4488 0.000004 Niskanen Center
#4559 0.000027 Brookings
#4696 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6507 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6530 0.000012 Center for American Progress
#6751 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#8499 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

system

#88 0.000343 Baseline
#129 0.000195 Reality-Based Community
#4471 0.000029 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#399 0.000268 Founders

Venture Capital

#1631 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1688 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1872 0.000094 Homebrew
#2125 0.000002 Accel
#2515 0.000002 Sequioa
#2898 0.000001 Bessemer
#3002 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3175 0.000028 Initialized Capital
#3297 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3438 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3518 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3660 0.000014 Khosla Ventures
#3906 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5071 0.000001 Village Global
#6099 0.000013 A16Z

Culture and Political Economy

#1605 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1652 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1765 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1793 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1835 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1877 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1885 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1917 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2141 0.000002 350.org
#2328 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2683 0.000045 EFF
#2817 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3353 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3354 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3590 0.000021 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3869 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4061 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4109 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4199 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4528 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4956 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4986 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5033 0.000022 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#6353 0.000008 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6509 0.000001 Anarachists
#6583 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
#7269 0.000006 Persuasion Community
#7559 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7595 0.000002 Rationality
#8245 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8442 0.000001 Degrowth
#8610 0.000005 Ecomodernists

Science

#2186 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2582 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3704 0.000010 Epidemiology Journalism
#4345 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8596 0.000001 Biotech

Crypto

#1651 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1764 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1829 0.000002 Polkadot
#2479 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3116 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3459 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3544 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3584 0.000001 Cosmos
#4441 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4502 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5971 0.000001 Ethereum
#6867 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8711 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9307 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1771 0.000002 Rust
#2338 0.000001 Zig

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