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?

Joel D. Anderson

Joel D. Anderson

@byjoelanderson

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#72 0.001210 The Atlantic
#100 0.001836 The Verge
#111 0.001338 Foreign Policy
#122 0.001325 Financial Times
#152 0.001100 BuzzFeed
#178 0.000678 Recode
#234 0.000745 Wired
#241 0.000607 The Intercept
#269 0.000414 New Yorker
#336 0.000349 Ars Technica
#427 0.000395 The Los Angeles Times
#592 0.000006 The Information
#648 0.000188 Bloomberg Opinion
#668 0.000209 The Dispatch
#774 0.000164 VICE
#869 0.000005 OANN
#871 0.000005 Newsmax
#893 0.000109 Washington Post
#970 0.000190 The New York Times
#1103 0.000006 Stat News
#1235 0.000023 Reuters
#1270 0.000079 The New York Post
#1441 0.000022 Techcrunch
#1448 0.000115 Wall Street Journal
#2036 0.000006 The Economist
#2600 0.000006 CNBC
#2801 0.000006 The Daily Beast
#4099 0.000005 Palladium Magazine

Think Tanks

#111 0.001338 Niskanen Center
#334 0.000420 Center for American Progress
#635 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#694 0.000006 Belfer Center
#834 0.000149 Council on Foreign Relations
#900 0.000006 Urban Institute
#1096 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1302 0.000113 Brookings
#1384 0.000005 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1452 0.000031 Berggruen Institute
#1556 0.000006 Cato Institute
#2084 0.000051 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#2616 0.000006 Atlantic Council
#3392 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3456 0.000005 Earth Institute
#3676 0.000036 American Enterprise Institute
#3676 0.000036 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4014 0.000007 Hudson Institute
#4629 0.000005 Eurasia Group
#5859 0.000013 Mercatus Center
#6553 0.000005 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7104 0.000005 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#134 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#156 0.000985 Environmental Journalists
#184 0.000006 Fair Vote
#273 0.000486 Moderate Conservatism
#296 0.000399 Ecomodernists
#319 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#335 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#372 0.000006 Existential Risks
#420 0.000351 Black Lives Matter
#445 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#466 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#487 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#590 0.000209 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#704 0.000006 350.org
#839 0.000134 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#893 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#913 0.000086 Harper's Open Letter
#983 0.000129 EFF
#1845 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#2101 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2702 0.000005 RadicalxChange
#2788 0.000005 Populist Libertarians
#3061 0.000005 Heterodox Academy
#3215 0.000005 Social Epistemology
#3224 0.000007 Anarachists
#3409 0.000024 Persuasion Community
#3485 0.000005 Works in Progress
#3882 0.000005 Effective Altruism
#4557 0.000014 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5227 0.000009 Rationality
#5610 0.000007 Degrowth
#5718 0.000005 Progress Studies
#7005 0.000005 The Long Now Foundation

Science

#208 0.000675 Epidemiology Journalism
#763 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1071 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2759 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#7498 0.000005 Biotech
#7534 0.000006 EconTwitter
#8322 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

Venture Capital

#176 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#276 0.000006 Founders Fund
#392 0.000487 Sutter Hill Ventures
#581 0.000311 Homebrew
#725 0.000006 Accel
#983 0.000152 Initialized Capital
#1121 0.000006 Sequioa
#1693 0.000006 Y Combinator
#1703 0.000005 Bessemer
#1937 0.000005 Index Ventures
#2215 0.000005 My Climate Journey
#2844 0.000005 Benchmark Capital
#3176 0.000024 Khosla Ventures
#3562 0.000005 Village Global
#6301 0.000013 A16Z

system

#274 0.000232 Baseline
#555 0.000121 Reality-Based Community
#4525 0.000029 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#2045 0.000068 Founders

Crypto

#181 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#349 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#379 0.000006 Polkadot
#1262 0.000005 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2286 0.000005 Crypto Angels
#2368 0.000005 Public Goods Funding
#2473 0.000005 Crypto Journalists
#2501 0.000005 Cosmos
#2888 0.000005 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3331 0.000005 Ethereum
#3602 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#4390 0.000005 Crypto Investing
#6311 0.000005 IDEO Founder Collective
#6317 0.000005 Crypto Infrastructure
#7466 0.000005 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#316 0.000006 Rust
#1047 0.000005 Zig

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