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?

Dave Pell

Dave Pell

@davepell

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#50 0.002084 Homebrew
#304 0.000602 Sutter Hill Ventures
#813 0.000238 My Climate Journey
#901 0.000144 Khosla Ventures
#1294 0.000114 Benchmark Capital
#2377 0.000049 Initialized Capital
#2430 0.000027 Village Global
#2725 0.000045 A16Z
#3917 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3954 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4369 0.000001 Accel
#4741 0.000001 Sequioa
#5177 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6187 0.000000 Bessemer
#6731 0.000000 Index Ventures

Think Tanks

#83 0.000860 Eurasia Group
#139 0.001009 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#689 0.000272 Earth Institute
#1046 0.000066 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1215 0.000060 Adam Smith Institute
#2552 0.000047 Council on Foreign Relations
#3848 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4307 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4365 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4392 0.000006 Hudson Institute
#4550 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4768 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4813 0.000015 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5138 0.000020 Center for American Progress
#5166 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5373 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#6127 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6347 0.000007 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#915 0.000143 Bloomberg Opinion
#2645 0.000057 The New York Times
#2668 0.000006 Techcrunch
#2918 0.000040 New Yorker
#4228 0.000001 The Information
#4738 0.000001 Stat News
#5044 0.000001 The Verge
#5373 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#5414 0.000022 The Atlantic
#5536 0.000000 OANN
#5556 0.000000 Newsmax
#5611 0.000012 Recode
#5641 0.000001 The Economist
#6190 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6237 0.000001 CNBC
#6956 0.000001 Wired
#7477 0.000001 Financial Times
#7785 0.000000 The Intercept
#7937 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8565 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8895 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9414 0.000001 VICE

Informal Community

#1441 0.000093 Founders

Science

#2559 0.000036 Biotech
#3567 0.000017 Epidemiology Journalism
#4446 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4860 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6466 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Culture and Political Economy

#2403 0.000031 Harper's Open Letter
#3897 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3943 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4044 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4078 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4118 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4129 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4141 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4194 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4422 0.000001 350.org
#4597 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5762 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5904 0.000006 Moderate Conservatism
#6002 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6488 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6520 0.000003 Degrowth
#6958 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#7134 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7217 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#7413 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7534 0.000000 Works in Progress
#8011 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#8045 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8275 0.000003 The Long Now Foundation
#8635 0.000000 EFF
#9706 0.000000 Anarachists

Crypto

#3527 0.000024 IDEO Founder Collective
#3927 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#3942 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4034 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4106 0.000001 Polkadot
#5797 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6628 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6672 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6692 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6720 0.000000 Cosmos
#7664 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7985 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8513 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure
#9872 0.000000 Ethereum

Software Engineering

#4039 0.000001 Rust
#5695 0.000000 Zig

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