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?

Robert McNees

Robert McNees

@mcnees

jacobi.luc.edu

Professor, physicist. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. RTs are spooky action at a distance. Opinions mine, not employer's. He/him.

22812 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#486 0.000326 Progress Studies
#512 0.000217 EFF
#651 0.000248 Social Epistemology
#711 0.000178 The Long Now Foundation
#1013 0.000134 Bismark Analysis
#1253 0.000091 Rationality
#1505 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1552 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1666 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1693 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1735 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1777 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1789 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1818 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2041 0.000002 350.org
#2229 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#3302 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3419 0.000012 Effective Altruism
#3967 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4399 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4582 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4701 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4979 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5067 0.000022 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5441 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7099 0.000006 Persuasion Community
#7115 0.000001 Anarachists
#7977 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8226 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9039 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#914 0.000190 Wired
#1360 0.000124 Wall Street Journal
#1468 0.000069 The New York Post
#1895 0.000002 The Information
#1905 0.000059 Ars Technica
#2422 0.000002 Stat News
#2698 0.000017 Palladium Magazine
#2701 0.000001 OANN
#2705 0.000001 Newsmax
#2760 0.000002 The Verge
#3377 0.000002 The Economist
#3978 0.000002 CNBC
#4055 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4788 0.000026 Bloomberg Opinion
#4896 0.000003 Techcrunch
#5261 0.000002 Financial Times
#5405 0.000001 The Intercept
#5866 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6495 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6720 0.000017 The Atlantic
#7376 0.000002 VICE
#8251 0.000001 Reuters
#9150 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#9693 0.000001 Recode

Venture Capital

#1169 0.000125 Village Global
#1532 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1591 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2028 0.000002 Accel
#2420 0.000002 Sequioa
#2910 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3228 0.000027 Initialized Capital
#3407 0.000001 Bessemer
#3772 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3950 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4002 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4370 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4619 0.000001 Homebrew
#6729 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Think Tanks

#1815 0.000085 Mercatus Center
#1960 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2014 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2210 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2439 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2721 0.000020 Eurasia Group
#2887 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3835 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3913 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#5142 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6126 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6946 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8891 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9081 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9150 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Science

#1513 0.000058 Epidimiology Twitter
#2087 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2484 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#6161 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8970 0.000001 Biotech

Informal Community

#6006 0.000019 Founders

Crypto

#1551 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1665 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1730 0.000002 Polkadot
#2992 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3951 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4012 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4054 0.000001 Cosmos
#4944 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5073 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5129 0.000001 Ethereum
#5660 0.000007 Crypto Infrastructure
#6895 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7491 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9220 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#1672 0.000002 Rust
#2863 0.000001 Zig

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