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 Frum

David Frum

@davidfrum

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#3 0.019301 Harper's Open Letter
#111 0.001081 Sierra Clib
#128 0.000656 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#152 0.000580 Persuasion Community
#174 0.000792 Social Epistemology
#237 0.000552 Moderate Conservatism
#262 0.000611 Heterodox Academy
#278 0.000437 Ecomodernists
#312 0.000513 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#717 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#766 0.000002 Fair Vote
#891 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#914 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#950 0.000002 Existential Risks
#955 0.000115 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1007 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1028 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1230 0.000095 The Long Now Foundation
#1273 0.000002 350.org
#1460 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1666 0.000041 Populist Libertarians
#2069 0.000035 Degrowth
#2165 0.000063 Progress Studies
#2521 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2841 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3064 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3558 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3648 0.000019 Rationality
#4249 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4672 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4701 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5382 0.000001 EFF
#6062 0.000001 Anarachists

Think Tanks

#50 0.002246 Hudson Institute
#156 0.000616 Council on Foreign Relations
#185 0.000616 Hoover Institution
#279 0.000175 Eurasia Group
#280 0.000445 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#352 0.000367 Brookings
#489 0.000295 American Enterprise Institute
#489 0.000295 National Bureau of Economic Research
#938 0.000167 Center for American Progress
#1192 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1251 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1253 0.000128 Mercatus Center
#1297 0.000110 Niskanen Center
#1446 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1681 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2145 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2211 0.000017 Atlantic Council
#2750 0.000008 Berggruen Institute
#2758 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2993 0.000033 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5229 0.000001 Earth Institute
#9577 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#110 0.000848 The Atlantic
#141 0.000657 New Yorker
#318 0.000343 Bloomberg Opinion
#351 0.000392 The Dispatch
#356 0.000341 Washington Post
#1134 0.000002 The Information
#1297 0.000110 Foreign Policy
#1674 0.000002 Stat News
#1808 0.000075 The Intercept
#1843 0.000001 OANN
#1843 0.000001 Newsmax
#2044 0.000002 The Verge
#2447 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2620 0.000002 The Economist
#3228 0.000002 CNBC
#3387 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3415 0.000040 The New York Times
#3571 0.000016 The New York Post
#3681 0.000007 Palladium Magazine
#4266 0.000002 Wired
#4504 0.000002 Financial Times
#4531 0.000003 Reuters
#5208 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5810 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6710 0.000002 VICE
#8948 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#8998 0.000001 Recode

Venture Capital

#341 0.000295 Bessemer
#749 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#821 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1030 0.000188 My Climate Journey
#1268 0.000002 Accel
#1673 0.000002 Sequioa
#2018 0.000065 A16Z
#2190 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3058 0.000013 Village Global
#3118 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3220 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3612 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3915 0.000001 Homebrew
#4428 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#6102 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

system

#853 0.000246 Think Tanks
#4203 0.000084 Baseline
#8419 0.000052 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#1196 0.000111 Founders

Science

#1324 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1438 0.000087 EconTwitter
#1678 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3506 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#3979 0.000029 ClimateTwitter
#4087 0.000005 Epidemiology Journalism
#4417 0.000017 Biotech

Crypto

#763 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#902 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#953 0.000002 Polkadot
#2155 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2733 0.000026 Crypto Infrastructure
#3144 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3241 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3285 0.000001 Cosmos
#4045 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4101 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5420 0.000001 Ethereum
#5764 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6404 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8347 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#894 0.000002 Rust
#2006 0.000001 Zig

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