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?

Marc E. Elias

Marc E. Elias

@marceelias

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#49 0.002215 Homebrew
#327 0.000492 My Climate Journey
#607 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#683 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1135 0.000003 Accel
#1546 0.000003 Sequioa
#2068 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2140 0.000002 Bessemer
#2668 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2737 0.000040 Initialized Capital
#2802 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2850 0.000042 A16Z
#3208 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3854 0.000003 Village Global
#4543 0.000006 Khosla Ventures

Think Tanks

#154 0.000770 Center for American Progress
#297 0.000415 Brookings
#1054 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1111 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1310 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1544 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1715 0.000064 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1907 0.000030 Eurasia Group
#2012 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2127 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2849 0.000012 Niskanen Center
#3052 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3518 0.000033 Council on Foreign Relations
#3935 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4600 0.000002 Earth Institute
#6787 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7407 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7587 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8996 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#462 0.000321 Black Lives Matter
#574 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#623 0.000003 Fair Vote
#751 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#771 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#781 0.000107 Degrowth
#810 0.000003 Existential Risks
#868 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#885 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#888 0.000139 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#915 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1131 0.000003 350.org
#1318 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1622 0.000065 Persuasion Community
#2104 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2371 0.000031 Harper's Open Letter
#2379 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2655 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2691 0.000024 Social Epistemology
#3058 0.000038 EFF
#3144 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3423 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3454 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3579 0.000020 The Long Now Foundation
#3869 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4285 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#5252 0.000002 Anarachists
#6172 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6986 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7393 0.000002 Progress Studies
#7546 0.000002 Rationality

Journalism

#1002 0.000003 The Information
#1228 0.000119 The Los Angeles Times
#1363 0.000002 Newsmax
#1370 0.000002 OANN
#1542 0.000003 Stat News
#1600 0.000087 Recode
#1920 0.000003 The Verge
#1952 0.000010 Techcrunch
#2490 0.000003 The Economist
#2849 0.000012 Foreign Policy
#3006 0.000005 Reuters
#3099 0.000003 CNBC
#3270 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3840 0.000028 New Yorker
#4149 0.000021 The Dispatch
#4157 0.000003 Wired
#4293 0.000029 The Atlantic
#4387 0.000003 Financial Times
#4429 0.000002 The Intercept
#4649 0.000021 Ars Technica
#5093 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5360 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#6382 0.000006 The New York Post
#6579 0.000003 VICE
#7624 0.000003 Washington Post
#8777 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Informal Community

#2448 0.000054 Founders

Science

#1184 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1533 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2003 0.000048 Biotech
#3371 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4529 0.000023 ClimateTwitter
#4966 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8860 0.000004 EconTwitter

system

#7504 0.000017 Think Tanks
#9926 0.000012 Baseline

Crypto

#621 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#765 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#810 0.000003 Polkadot
#1704 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2703 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2832 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2879 0.000002 Cosmos
#3361 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3562 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4654 0.000002 Ethereum
#5067 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5663 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7726 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8125 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#752 0.000003 Rust
#1530 0.000002 Zig

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