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?

joshua schachter

joshua schachter

@joshu

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#46 0.003790 Accel
#96 0.001486 Khosla Ventures
#125 0.001491 Y Combinator
#148 0.000799 A16Z
#420 0.000402 My Climate Journey
#624 0.000235 Initialized Capital
#727 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#763 0.000248 Homebrew
#799 0.000003 Founders Fund
#813 0.000191 Village Global
#1125 0.000132 Benchmark Capital
#1651 0.000003 Sequioa
#2426 0.000001 Bessemer
#2960 0.000001 Index Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#122 0.001106 Social Epistemology
#149 0.000911 Progress Studies
#161 0.000637 The Long Now Foundation
#314 0.000353 Rationality
#695 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#744 0.000003 Fair Vote
#870 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#892 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#929 0.000003 Existential Risks
#986 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#1006 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#1034 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1251 0.000003 350.org
#1438 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1510 0.000072 RadicalxChange
#1511 0.000087 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1932 0.000035 Effective Altruism
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#2560 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2926 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
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#4115 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4575 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
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#5797 0.000001 Anarachists
#7173 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7322 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7823 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#178 0.000802 Crypto VC
#260 0.000539 IDEO Founder Collective
#410 0.000238 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#741 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#880 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#931 0.000003 Polkadot
#1368 0.000066 Crypto Infrastructure
#2993 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3100 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3145 0.000001 Cosmos
#3703 0.000004 Ethereum
#3827 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3926 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5563 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6178 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Journalism

#419 0.000290 Techcrunch
#992 0.000117 Ars Technica
#1115 0.000003 The Information
#1537 0.000087 The Atlantic
#1652 0.000003 Stat News
#1681 0.000001 Newsmax
#1683 0.000001 OANN
#1795 0.000074 Bloomberg Opinion
#1962 0.000070 Recode
#2025 0.000003 The Verge
#2600 0.000003 The Economist
#3195 0.000044 The New York Times
#3209 0.000003 CNBC
#3368 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3435 0.000013 Financial Times
#4155 0.000026 New Yorker
#4252 0.000003 Wired
#4631 0.000001 The Intercept
#5187 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5674 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#5791 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6694 0.000003 VICE
#7152 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#7254 0.000002 Reuters
#8689 0.000003 Washington Post
#8927 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#9025 0.000001 The Dispatch

Think Tanks

#779 0.000212 Mercatus Center
#1170 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1230 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1424 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1661 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2123 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2551 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3168 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4272 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5045 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6129 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6792 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7063 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7152 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7393 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#7953 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8984 0.000009 American Enterprise Institute
#8984 0.000009 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9431 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Science

#1303 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1474 0.000070 Biotech
#1656 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3485 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5319 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Informal Community

#4470 0.000027 Founders

Software Engineering

#873 0.000003 Rust
#1846 0.000001 Zig

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