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?

Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

Omni-American, staff writer at The Atlantic, founding editor of The Best of Journalism–subscribe here: ponyexpress.io/subscribe/theb…

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#24 0.003854 Heterodox Academy
#44 0.002276 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#57 0.001511 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#64 0.001958 Social Epistemology
#68 0.001017 Persuasion Community
#74 0.001738 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#161 0.000713 Rationality
#163 0.000726 Moderate Conservatism
#171 0.000455 Harper's Open Letter
#740 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#789 0.000002 Fair Vote
#914 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#936 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#973 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1030 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1050 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1077 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1295 0.000002 350.org
#1297 0.000089 The Long Now Foundation
#1340 0.000112 Progress Studies
#1388 0.000090 Ecomodernists
#1482 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1883 0.000058 Works in Progress
#1955 0.000027 Populist Libertarians
#2215 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2484 0.000024 Effective Altruism
#2604 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2764 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3249 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#4032 0.000004 Anarachists
#4408 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5099 0.000002 EFF
#7557 0.000002 Degrowth

Journalism

#62 0.001972 The Dispatch
#172 0.000590 The Atlantic
#197 0.000723 The Intercept
#366 0.000450 Wall Street Journal
#457 0.000258 Bloomberg Opinion
#623 0.000156 The New York Post
#1100 0.000168 The New York Times
#1111 0.000106 Ars Technica
#1155 0.000002 The Information
#1492 0.000002 Newsmax
#1499 0.000002 OANN
#1520 0.000089 Foreign Policy
#1696 0.000002 Stat News
#1726 0.000018 The Economist
#2009 0.000061 New Yorker
#2066 0.000002 The Verge
#2764 0.000016 Palladium Magazine
#2919 0.000024 Financial Times
#3247 0.000002 CNBC
#3405 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3461 0.000014 Wired
#4384 0.000011 Washington Post
#4732 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4929 0.000003 Reuters
#5228 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5831 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6731 0.000002 VICE
#8662 0.000002 Recode

Think Tanks

#128 0.000835 American Enterprise Institute
#128 0.000835 National Bureau of Economic Research
#219 0.000495 Council on Foreign Relations
#271 0.000488 Cato Institute
#501 0.000316 Mercatus Center
#621 0.000226 Hoover Institution
#1214 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1273 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1302 0.000055 Hudson Institute
#1374 0.000107 Brookings
#1459 0.000040 Eurasia Group
#1469 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1520 0.000089 Niskanen Center
#1672 0.000051 Atlantic Council
#1703 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#1812 0.000060 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#2322 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2634 0.000009 Berggruen Institute
#4784 0.000002 Earth Institute
#7750 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8567 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

system

#1382 0.000111 Think Tanks
#4117 0.000095 Baseline
#8413 0.000053 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#772 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#842 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1289 0.000002 Accel
#1324 0.000103 Village Global
#1351 0.000018 Y Combinator
#1691 0.000002 Sequioa
#2252 0.000002 Bessemer
#2702 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2782 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2914 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3306 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3437 0.000023 Initialized Capital
#3649 0.000002 Homebrew
#5849 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#786 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#925 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#976 0.000002 Polkadot
#1179 0.000042 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2818 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2940 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2982 0.000002 Cosmos
#3120 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3586 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3712 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#4222 0.000006 Crypto Investing
#4345 0.000002 Ethereum
#7917 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8350 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Science

#1345 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1701 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3527 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#4116 0.000005 Epidemiology Journalism
#6078 0.000010 Biotech
#7974 0.000005 EconTwitter

Software Engineering

#917 0.000002 Rust
#1661 0.000002 Zig

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