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?

Michael Mina

Michael Mina

@michaelmina_lab

Lens Rankings

Science

#39 0.004323 Epidimiology Twitter
#61 0.001885 Epidemiology Journalism
#68 0.001229 Biotech
#831 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1148 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#6222 0.000009 EconTwitter
#7479 0.000008 ClimateTwitter

Think Tanks

#157 0.001305 Belfer Center
#187 0.000767 Earth Institute
#583 0.000247 Center for American Progress
#701 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#714 0.000173 Council on Foreign Relations
#788 0.000209 Mercatus Center
#964 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1165 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1290 0.000114 Brookings
#1524 0.000102 American Enterprise Institute
#1524 0.000102 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1532 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1640 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1788 0.000022 Adam Smith Institute
#2692 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#3410 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#4446 0.000004 Niskanen Center
#5306 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#5488 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#5608 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7008 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7879 0.000003 Hoover Institution

Venture Capital

#244 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#335 0.000005 Founders Fund
#360 0.000494 Y Combinator
#430 0.000368 Benchmark Capital
#707 0.000184 Khosla Ventures
#788 0.000005 Accel
#1194 0.000005 Sequioa
#1210 0.000133 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1775 0.000003 Bessemer
#2173 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2274 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#3304 0.000003 Homebrew
#3770 0.000003 Village Global
#4289 0.000003 Initialized Capital
#4636 0.000023 A16Z

Journalism

#358 0.000318 Palladium Magazine
#653 0.000005 The Information
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#977 0.000003 OANN
#1183 0.000005 Stat News
#1285 0.000104 The Atlantic
#1403 0.000124 The New York Times
#1599 0.000005 The Verge
#1681 0.000078 Bloomberg Opinion
#2121 0.000005 The Economist
#2711 0.000005 CNBC
#2882 0.000005 The Daily Beast
#3147 0.000026 The Los Angeles Times
#3659 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3769 0.000004 Reuters
#3879 0.000005 Wired
#4022 0.000005 Financial Times
#4186 0.000003 The Intercept
#4446 0.000004 Foreign Policy
#4648 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#6128 0.000005 VICE
#6567 0.000005 Washington Post
#7529 0.000003 The Dispatch
#7565 0.000003 Recode
#7961 0.000005 Wall Street Journal
#9198 0.000003 The New York Post

Culture and Political Economy

#205 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#255 0.000005 Fair Vote
#389 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#405 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#442 0.000005 Existential Risks
#514 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#535 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#556 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#757 0.000157 Ecomodernists
#774 0.000005 350.org
#963 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#1350 0.000090 Works in Progress
#1673 0.000089 Progress Studies
#1739 0.000063 Rationality
#1781 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#1975 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2276 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2350 0.000041 The Long Now Foundation
#2447 0.000053 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2626 0.000037 Persuasion Community
#2690 0.000026 Harper's Open Letter
#2800 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#2988 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3075 0.000016 Effective Altruism
#3118 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3251 0.000003 Social Epistemology
#3981 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4142 0.000003 Anarachists
#4695 0.000003 EFF
#6211 0.000003 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6354 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#6506 0.000003 Degrowth
#9265 0.000003 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

system

#520 0.000124 Reality-Based Community
#5645 0.000031 Baseline
#7412 0.000017 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#3032 0.000042 Founders

Crypto

#252 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#417 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#450 0.000005 Polkadot
#1343 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2362 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2534 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2561 0.000003 Cosmos
#2652 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3056 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3264 0.000028 Crypto VC
#3753 0.000003 Ethereum
#4059 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4778 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#6821 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective
#6970 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#387 0.000005 Rust
#1132 0.000003 Zig

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