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?

James Hamblin

James Hamblin

@jameshamblin

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#18 0.004105 The Atlantic
#1120 0.000125 The Dispatch
#1154 0.000080 The Verge
#1161 0.000106 New Yorker
#1432 0.000058 Washington Post
#2110 0.000076 The New York Times
#2361 0.000013 The Daily Beast
#2846 0.000004 CNBC
#3564 0.000019 The Los Angeles Times
#3611 0.000024 The Intercept
#4059 0.000024 Wall Street Journal
#4104 0.000003 Reuters
#4789 0.000001 The Information
#4856 0.000014 VICE
#5290 0.000001 Stat News
#5329 0.000000 OANN
#5347 0.000000 Newsmax
#6184 0.000001 The Economist
#7304 0.000004 Recode
#7471 0.000001 Wired
#8002 0.000001 Financial Times
#8439 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8715 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#8753 0.000001 Techcrunch
#8779 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#9568 0.000003 The New York Post

Science

#299 0.000484 Epidemiology Journalism
#529 0.000216 Biotech
#5011 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5420 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6997 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8116 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

system

#362 0.000214 Baseline
#554 0.000121 Reality-Based Community

Culture and Political Economy

#1300 0.000117 Social Epistemology
#1331 0.000099 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1432 0.000055 Effective Altruism
#1697 0.000059 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2020 0.000059 Ecomodernists
#2062 0.000038 Harper's Open Letter
#2264 0.000042 Rationality
#2336 0.000046 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2362 0.000046 Moderate Conservatism
#2932 0.000031 Persuasion Community
#3151 0.000025 The Long Now Foundation
#4466 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4512 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4607 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4647 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4687 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4691 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4702 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4756 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4988 0.000001 350.org
#5162 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5798 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6287 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6513 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6923 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7020 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#7210 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7333 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7849 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8450 0.000000 EFF
#9518 0.000000 Anarachists

Think Tanks

#1482 0.000029 Berggruen Institute
#1837 0.000084 American Enterprise Institute
#1837 0.000084 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2172 0.000057 Council on Foreign Relations
#4693 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4867 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4907 0.000014 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4925 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5111 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5325 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5712 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6662 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7496 0.000009 Center for American Progress
#8578 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8779 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Venture Capital

#1433 0.000026 Bessemer
#2323 0.000045 Khosla Ventures
#4484 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4520 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4931 0.000001 Accel
#5296 0.000001 Sequioa
#5715 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6252 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6473 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6522 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6831 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6972 0.000000 Homebrew
#7845 0.000000 Village Global
#8141 0.000000 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#4509 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4601 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4674 0.000001 Polkadot
#5585 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6471 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6484 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6516 0.000000 Cosmos
#7457 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7761 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9548 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9638 0.000000 Ethereum

Software Engineering

#4597 0.000001 Rust
#5487 0.000000 Zig

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