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?

Justin Hendrix

Justin Hendrix

@justinhendrix

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#6 0.006689 Homebrew
#1344 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1397 0.000101 Initialized Capital
#1404 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1842 0.000002 Accel
#2239 0.000002 Sequioa
#2739 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2744 0.000001 Bessemer
#3161 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3283 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3372 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3768 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4281 0.000025 A16Z
#4944 0.000001 Village Global
#6231 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Journalism

#182 0.000891 Wired
#793 0.000166 The Atlantic
#822 0.000156 The Verge
#845 0.000148 New Yorker
#1121 0.000069 The Daily Beast
#1158 0.000114 Bloomberg Opinion
#1166 0.000098 Ars Technica
#1580 0.000017 Techcrunch
#1709 0.000002 The Information
#2017 0.000001 OANN
#2019 0.000001 Newsmax
#2240 0.000002 Stat News
#2607 0.000006 CNBC
#3160 0.000004 Reuters
#3184 0.000002 The Economist
#4298 0.000028 The New York Times
#4508 0.000004 Palladium Magazine
#4591 0.000019 Recode
#4606 0.000010 Washington Post
#4875 0.000001 The Intercept
#5090 0.000002 Financial Times
#5171 0.000009 The New York Post
#5716 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6317 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7214 0.000002 VICE
#7870 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#9482 0.000001 The Dispatch
#9549 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#554 0.000246 Brookings
#844 0.000218 Earth Institute
#847 0.000065 Eurasia Group
#1774 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1829 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2023 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2060 0.000026 Atlantic Council
#2255 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2397 0.000060 Center for American Progress
#2704 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3000 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3550 0.000030 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4565 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5837 0.000019 Council on Foreign Relations
#6379 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7870 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7942 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9334 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute
#9773 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Science

#1795 0.000099 Epidemiology Journalism
#1902 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2297 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4077 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8488 0.000001 Biotech

Culture and Political Economy

#1315 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1362 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1479 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1506 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1546 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1589 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1604 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1630 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1787 0.000060 The Long Now Foundation
#1854 0.000002 350.org
#2041 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2674 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3144 0.000027 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3177 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3214 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3721 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3942 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3971 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4053 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4393 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4820 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4845 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#4962 0.000012 Persuasion Community
#5469 0.000010 Harper's Open Letter
#5518 0.000001 EFF
#6309 0.000001 Anarachists
#7445 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7806 0.000002 Rationality
#8112 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8255 0.000001 Degrowth
#8849 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8856 0.000004 Ecomodernists

Crypto

#1361 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1481 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1541 0.000002 Polkadot
#2321 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2394 0.000045 Crypto VC
#3308 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3399 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3437 0.000001 Cosmos
#4255 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4299 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5683 0.000001 Ethereum
#6014 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6653 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8540 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9090 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

system

#3770 0.000035 Think Tanks
#6511 0.000023 Baseline

Informal Community

#7402 0.000015 Founders

Software Engineering

#1484 0.000002 Rust
#2178 0.000001 Zig

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