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?

Franklin Leonard

Franklin Leonard

@franklinleonard

Lens Rankings

Science

#65 0.001835 Epidemiology Journalism
#295 0.000610 Epidimiology Twitter
#530 0.000318 ClimateTwitter
#683 0.000008 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#960 0.000008 Philosophy Twitter
#1002 0.000115 Biotech
#6455 0.000008 EconTwitter

Venture Capital

#66 0.001754 Homebrew
#95 0.000008 Standard Crypto
#146 0.001002 Khosla Ventures
#200 0.000008 Founders Fund
#260 0.000536 Village Global
#276 0.000576 My Climate Journey
#300 0.000512 Benchmark Capital
#430 0.000333 A16Z
#445 0.000440 Sutter Hill Ventures
#472 0.000304 Initialized Capital
#651 0.000008 Accel
#1041 0.000008 Sequioa
#1573 0.000008 Y Combinator
#1679 0.000006 Bessemer
#1801 0.000006 Index Ventures

Journalism

#114 0.000838 The Atlantic
#121 0.001535 The Daily Beast
#180 0.000675 Recode
#213 0.000505 New Yorker
#384 0.000549 Financial Times
#503 0.000307 Foreign Policy
#517 0.000008 The Information
#562 0.000301 The Los Angeles Times
#573 0.000211 Ars Technica
#645 0.000189 Bloomberg Opinion
#827 0.000094 Techcrunch
#840 0.000006 OANN
#844 0.000006 Newsmax
#1005 0.000008 Stat News
#1054 0.000097 The New York Post
#1077 0.000086 Washington Post
#1410 0.000017 Reuters
#1479 0.000008 The Verge
#1527 0.000114 The New York Times
#1931 0.000008 The Economist
#2037 0.000048 BuzzFeed
#2410 0.000008 CNBC
#2779 0.000046 Wall Street Journal
#2961 0.000040 The Intercept
#3697 0.000008 Wired
#3913 0.000006 Palladium Magazine
#4202 0.000020 VICE
#6558 0.000006 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#50 0.000008 Schumacher Circle
#73 0.001447 Black Lives Matter
#100 0.000008 Fair Vote
#235 0.000008 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#252 0.000008 Extinction Rebellion
#288 0.000008 Existential Risks
#364 0.000008 Claremont Institute
#384 0.000008 Ecosocialism
#406 0.000008 Sierra Clib
#447 0.000311 RadicalxChange
#492 0.000245 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#513 0.000215 EFF
#622 0.000008 350.org
#685 0.000216 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#685 0.000109 Harper's Open Letter
#815 0.000008 Environmental Defense Fund
#949 0.000170 Environmental Journalists
#1114 0.000144 Social Epistemology
#1307 0.000108 Heterodox Academy
#1634 0.000064 Persuasion Community
#1797 0.000006 Climate Solutions
#1880 0.000064 Ecomodernists
#2031 0.000006 Bismark Analysis
#2601 0.000034 Rationality
#2692 0.000006 Populist Libertarians
#3438 0.000006 Anarachists
#3447 0.000006 Works in Progress
#3839 0.000006 Effective Altruism
#4296 0.000012 Progress Studies
#5610 0.000006 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#5657 0.000006 Degrowth
#6007 0.000006 Moderate Conservatism
#6120 0.000007 The Long Now Foundation

Informal Community

#157 0.000557 Founders

Crypto

#97 0.000008 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#269 0.000008 Crypto Political Economy
#300 0.000008 Polkadot
#327 0.000429 IDEO Founder Collective
#840 0.000124 Crypto Infrastructure
#1239 0.000006 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2263 0.000006 Crypto Angels
#2266 0.000006 Public Goods Funding
#2457 0.000006 Crypto Journalists
#2470 0.000006 Cosmos
#2804 0.000006 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3221 0.000006 Ethereum
#3447 0.000006 Decentralized Web
#4284 0.000006 Crypto Investing
#5755 0.000010 Crypto VC

Think Tanks

#388 0.000381 Center for American Progress
#463 0.000287 Brookings
#503 0.000307 Niskanen Center
#545 0.000219 Council on Foreign Relations
#554 0.000008 RAND Corporation
#617 0.000008 Belfer Center
#791 0.000106 Asia Society Policy Institute
#826 0.000008 Urban Institute
#878 0.000063 Eurasia Group
#887 0.000097 Adam Smith Institute
#1006 0.000008 Heritage Foundation
#1128 0.000099 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1233 0.000108 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1437 0.000008 Cato Institute
#1962 0.000078 Mercatus Center
#1997 0.000017 Berggruen Institute
#2486 0.000008 Atlantic Council
#3202 0.000011 Hudson Institute
#3227 0.000042 American Enterprise Institute
#3227 0.000042 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3343 0.000006 Earth Institute
#4494 0.000018 Hoover Institution

system

#2914 0.000080 Reality-Based Community
#3188 0.000042 Think Tanks
#4002 0.000126 Baseline

Software Engineering

#234 0.000008 Rust
#1020 0.000006 Zig

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