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?

Mark Joseph Stern

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#2430 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2477 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2911 0.000001 Accel
#3288 0.000001 Sequioa
#3635 0.000001 Bessemer
#3762 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3992 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4181 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4595 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4818 0.000001 Homebrew
#5292 0.000003 Khosla Ventures
#5714 0.000001 Village Global
#5935 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Journalism

#634 0.000194 The Daily Beast
#683 0.000211 The Economist
#1432 0.000094 Foreign Policy
#1599 0.000082 Bloomberg Opinion
#2627 0.000046 The Dispatch
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#2940 0.000001 OANN
#2947 0.000001 Newsmax
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#3284 0.000001 Stat News
#3613 0.000001 The Verge
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#8373 0.000010 New Yorker
#9853 0.000001 Recode

Think Tanks

#960 0.000164 Center for American Progress
#967 0.000147 Brookings
#1432 0.000094 Niskanen Center
#2842 0.000001 RAND Corporation
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#3746 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4137 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
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#5353 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
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#6936 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7153 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7239 0.000014 Council on Foreign Relations
#8030 0.000003 Hoover Institution
#9184 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9326 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Culture and Political Economy

#1181 0.000110 EFF
#2138 0.000044 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2406 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2453 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2560 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2591 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2630 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2663 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2665 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2710 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2940 0.000001 350.org
#3118 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3518 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3825 0.000016 Harper's Open Letter
#4040 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4236 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4596 0.000013 Persuasion Community
#4633 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4675 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4798 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4933 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5192 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5579 0.000008 Rationality
#5626 0.000002 Anarachists
#5628 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5649 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5763 0.000007 Moderate Conservatism
#8731 0.000011 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#8921 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9298 0.000001 Degrowth
#9991 0.000002 Ecomodernists

Science

#2974 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3385 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4626 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#5067 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9150 0.000001 Biotech

Crypto

#2452 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2555 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2624 0.000001 Polkadot
#3221 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4175 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4227 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4276 0.000001 Cosmos
#5170 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5310 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6965 0.000001 Ethereum
#7140 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7775 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9427 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#2563 0.000001 Rust
#3100 0.000001 Zig

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