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?

David Roth

David Roth

@david_j_roth

Co-owner/flannel dipshit at @DefectorMedia, co-founder of @Classical, turtle owner. Not the one from Van Halen or magic. Header art by Vicki Nerino.

127588 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#106 0.001469 Financial Times
#153 0.000992 VICE
#214 0.000680 The Intercept
#261 0.000509 Recode
#411 0.000172 Stat News
#451 0.000438 Wired
#649 0.000191 New Yorker
#1008 0.000003 The Information
#1040 0.000130 The Atlantic
#1057 0.000075 The Daily Beast
#1136 0.000079 Washington Post
#1342 0.000002 Newsmax
#1350 0.000002 OANN
#1378 0.000082 Ars Technica
#1702 0.000064 BuzzFeed
#1925 0.000003 The Verge
#1930 0.000082 Wall Street Journal
#2080 0.000078 The New York Times
#2473 0.000032 The New York Post
#2496 0.000003 The Economist
#2501 0.000049 The Dispatch
#2921 0.000011 Foreign Policy
#2992 0.000005 Reuters
#3104 0.000003 CNBC
#3114 0.000005 Techcrunch
#3635 0.000018 The Los Angeles Times
#4425 0.000028 Bloomberg Opinion
#5340 0.000002 Palladium Magazine

Informal Community

#238 0.000387 Founders

Venture Capital

#613 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#688 0.000003 Founders Fund
#906 0.000216 Homebrew
#1140 0.000003 Accel
#1551 0.000003 Sequioa
#2072 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2120 0.000002 Bessemer
#2306 0.000052 Initialized Capital
#2581 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2649 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2783 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3191 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3930 0.000011 Khosla Ventures
#4291 0.000002 Village Global

Culture and Political Economy

#580 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#629 0.000003 Fair Vote
#757 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#777 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#816 0.000003 Existential Risks
#873 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#891 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#920 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#931 0.000179 Environmental Journalists
#1005 0.000120 Ecomodernists
#1137 0.000003 350.org
#1324 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1545 0.000067 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2440 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2637 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3127 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3407 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3433 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3475 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3787 0.000031 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3854 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4267 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4286 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4986 0.000002 EFF
#5173 0.000010 Moderate Conservatism
#5211 0.000002 Anarachists
#5533 0.000010 Harper's Open Letter
#6422 0.000006 The Long Now Foundation
#7230 0.000003 Rationality
#7342 0.000002 Degrowth
#7371 0.000002 Progress Studies
#8376 0.000005 Persuasion Community

Think Tanks

#803 0.000067 Eurasia Group
#884 0.000161 Brookings
#1060 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1117 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1316 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1549 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1856 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2016 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2921 0.000011 Niskanen Center
#2997 0.000047 American Enterprise Institute
#2997 0.000047 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3058 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3788 0.000033 Center for American Progress
#3915 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4573 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5864 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6720 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7260 0.000014 Council on Foreign Relations
#7569 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7904 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8558 0.000002 Hoover Institution

system

#4054 0.000108 Baseline
#8296 0.000064 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1190 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1539 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2449 0.000037 Biotech
#2997 0.000050 Epidemiology Journalism
#3376 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter

Crypto

#627 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#771 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#816 0.000003 Polkadot
#1684 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2683 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2817 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2860 0.000002 Cosmos
#3327 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3538 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4621 0.000002 Ethereum
#5036 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5621 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7686 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8096 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#758 0.000003 Rust
#1511 0.000002 Zig

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