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?

Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

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#5367 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5754 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6701 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#8373 0.000011 Brookings
#8472 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#8692 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#9421 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9749 0.000000 Earth Institute

Culture and Political Economy

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#265 0.000411 Rationality
#590 0.000268 Progress Studies
#1095 0.000118 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1357 0.000059 Effective Altruism
#1563 0.000051 Bismark Analysis
#1845 0.000066 Social Epistemology
#1925 0.000062 Ecomodernists
#1982 0.000048 Heterodox Academy
#3072 0.000026 The Long Now Foundation
#4510 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4556 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4651 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4691 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4731 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4732 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4746 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4800 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5032 0.000001 350.org
#5204 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
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#8230 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#8421 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8505 0.000000 Works in Progress
#9010 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#9593 0.000000 EFF

Journalism

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#1176 0.000112 Bloomberg Opinion
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#6227 0.000001 The Economist
#6571 0.000000 OANN
#6592 0.000000 Newsmax
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#7512 0.000001 Wired
#8044 0.000001 Financial Times
#8479 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8717 0.000000 The Intercept
#9106 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9949 0.000001 VICE

Venture Capital

#1389 0.000103 Benchmark Capital
#4528 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4564 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4926 0.000020 A16Z
#4974 0.000001 Accel
#5340 0.000001 Sequioa
#5758 0.000001 Y Combinator
#7210 0.000000 Bessemer
#7459 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#7675 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#7755 0.000000 Index Ventures
#8122 0.000000 Homebrew
#8986 0.000000 Village Global
#9354 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#9918 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Science

#1299 0.000099 EconTwitter
#5055 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5462 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7039 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9471 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#854 0.000097 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4553 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4645 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4718 0.000001 Polkadot
#5193 0.000012 Crypto VC
#5848 0.000006 Crypto Infrastructure
#7119 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective
#7653 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#7693 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#7707 0.000000 Cosmos
#8648 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#9051 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

system

#8360 0.000016 Baseline
#9430 0.000025 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#4641 0.000001 Rust
#6727 0.000000 Zig

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