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?

Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

@mattwridley

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#47 0.002426 Benchmark Capital
#1180 0.000111 Khosla Ventures
#1475 0.000012 Index Ventures
#1565 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1623 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2060 0.000002 Accel
#2452 0.000002 Sequioa
#2825 0.000043 A16Z
#2940 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3537 0.000005 Village Global
#3968 0.000001 Bessemer
#4307 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4535 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5121 0.000001 Homebrew
#6244 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Journalism

#150 0.000885 The Dispatch
#1480 0.000090 Bloomberg Opinion
#1928 0.000002 The Information
#2455 0.000002 Stat News
#2792 0.000002 The Verge
#3284 0.000001 OANN
#3295 0.000001 Newsmax
#3409 0.000002 The Economist
#4009 0.000002 CNBC
#4084 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4258 0.000012 The New York Post
#4549 0.000020 Recode
#4923 0.000002 Wired
#5292 0.000002 Financial Times
#5861 0.000001 The Intercept
#5895 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6275 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6524 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6972 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7403 0.000002 VICE
#8636 0.000013 The Atlantic
#9760 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#157 0.000879 Cato Institute
#357 0.000438 Mercatus Center
#399 0.000352 American Enterprise Institute
#399 0.000352 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1383 0.000047 Adam Smith Institute
#1637 0.000036 Eurasia Group
#1910 0.000057 Hoover Institution
#1932 0.000018 Berggruen Institute
#1993 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2047 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2242 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2472 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#3942 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4582 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5825 0.000008 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6275 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6687 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7456 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9608 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#153 0.000673 The Long Now Foundation
#156 0.000579 Persuasion Community
#160 0.000699 Ecomodernists
#177 0.000804 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#397 0.000364 Moderate Conservatism
#453 0.000157 Harper's Open Letter
#667 0.000238 Progress Studies
#882 0.000150 Works in Progress
#937 0.000133 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1084 0.000120 Bismark Analysis
#1500 0.000075 Rationality
#1538 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1585 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1698 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1726 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1768 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1810 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1820 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1851 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2074 0.000002 350.org
#2262 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#3336 0.000013 Effective Altruism
#3840 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4630 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4692 0.000011 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4961 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4962 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5109 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5261 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5958 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6605 0.000001 EFF
#7675 0.000001 Anarachists
#9694 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#588 0.000251 Crypto VC
#1131 0.000108 IDEO Founder Collective
#1584 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1697 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1762 0.000002 Polkadot
#2003 0.000040 Crypto Infrastructure
#3557 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3659 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3714 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#4115 0.000006 Crypto Investing
#4303 0.000002 Ethereum
#4508 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4550 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4592 0.000001 Cosmos
#5500 0.000001 Public Goods Funding

system

#956 0.000191 Think Tanks
#5275 0.000036 Baseline
#9952 0.000021 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1539 0.000066 Biotech
#2120 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2516 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4282 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#6625 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8433 0.000004 EconTwitter

Informal Community

#2966 0.000043 Founders

Software Engineering

#1705 0.000002 Rust
#3438 0.000001 Zig

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