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?

Kevin Kwok

Kevin Kwok

@kevinakwok

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#46 0.006945 Standard Crypto
#74 0.001878 Village Global
#114 0.000982 A16Z
#188 0.000649 Initialized Capital
#206 0.001053 Y Combinator
#341 0.000572 Sequioa
#368 0.000362 Khosla Ventures
#557 0.000324 My Climate Journey
#622 0.000293 Homebrew
#783 0.000003 Founders Fund
#857 0.000183 Benchmark Capital
#1232 0.000003 Accel
#1272 0.000031 Bessemer
#1551 0.000099 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1797 0.000006 Index Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#29 0.003597 Social Epistemology
#32 0.002796 Progress Studies
#41 0.002401 The Long Now Foundation
#92 0.001233 Rationality
#408 0.000375 Bismark Analysis
#677 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#726 0.000003 Fair Vote
#741 0.000164 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#852 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#874 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#911 0.000003 Existential Risks
#969 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#988 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#1016 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1233 0.000003 350.org
#1420 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2172 0.000055 Ecomodernists
#2199 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2464 0.000034 Works in Progress
#2504 0.000019 RadicalxChange
#2517 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3515 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3555 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4375 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4391 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5087 0.000002 EFF
#5473 0.000002 Anarachists
#6994 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7121 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7536 0.000002 Degrowth
#9432 0.000003 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Crypto

#208 0.000700 Crypto VC
#724 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#864 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#913 0.000003 Polkadot
#1216 0.000076 Crypto Infrastructure
#1805 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1926 0.000029 Decentralized Web
#2003 0.000030 Crypto Investing
#2045 0.000020 Cosmos
#2800 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2922 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3069 0.000031 IDEO Founder Collective
#3506 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3557 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#4849 0.000002 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#592 0.000272 Mercatus Center
#1154 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1212 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1406 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1643 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2107 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2299 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3150 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3486 0.000007 Niskanen Center
#4066 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4764 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5163 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5966 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6724 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6821 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7734 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9189 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#750 0.000168 Bloomberg Opinion
#1099 0.000003 The Information
#1473 0.000002 Newsmax
#1480 0.000002 OANN
#1633 0.000003 Stat News
#1731 0.000044 Palladium Magazine
#2007 0.000003 The Verge
#2010 0.000010 Techcrunch
#2584 0.000003 The Economist
#3188 0.000003 CNBC
#3353 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3486 0.000007 Foreign Policy
#4234 0.000003 Wired
#4409 0.000011 Washington Post
#4446 0.000022 Ars Technica
#4470 0.000003 Financial Times
#4508 0.000002 The Intercept
#5171 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5522 0.000022 The Atlantic
#5766 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5937 0.000002 Reuters
#6676 0.000003 VICE
#8651 0.000002 Recode
#8736 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8891 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Informal Community

#1237 0.000107 Founders

system

#6910 0.000021 Baseline

Science

#1285 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1639 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3460 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5109 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8146 0.000002 Biotech

Software Engineering

#855 0.000003 Rust
#1642 0.000002 Zig

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