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?

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#52 0.003258 Founders Fund
#107 0.001403 Khosla Ventures
#163 0.000745 Initialized Capital
#251 0.000374 Index Ventures
#422 0.000405 Sequioa
#461 0.000319 A16Z
#850 0.000179 Village Global
#954 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1072 0.000158 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1446 0.000025 Bessemer
#1466 0.000002 Accel
#2374 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2691 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2696 0.000026 Homebrew

Think Tanks

#117 0.001280 Niskanen Center
#1395 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1450 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1648 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1878 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2070 0.000072 American Enterprise Institute
#2070 0.000072 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2216 0.000066 Mercatus Center
#2309 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2336 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3366 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4070 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4772 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5971 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6424 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7064 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7386 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8334 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9195 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#117 0.001280 Foreign Policy
#147 0.000628 Bloomberg Opinion
#428 0.000321 Recode
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#1333 0.000002 The Information
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#1486 0.000002 OANN
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#1873 0.000002 Stat News
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#2230 0.000002 The Verge
#2822 0.000002 The Economist
#3345 0.000031 Ars Technica
#3561 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4429 0.000002 Wired
#4511 0.000002 The Intercept
#4702 0.000002 Financial Times
#5407 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5997 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6891 0.000002 VICE
#8747 0.000002 The Dispatch
#9168 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9349 0.000002 Washington Post

Culture and Political Economy

#256 0.000438 The Long Now Foundation
#275 0.000544 Social Epistemology
#310 0.000518 Progress Studies
#744 0.000163 Rationality
#924 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#954 0.000094 Effective Altruism
#972 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1090 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1119 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1130 0.000114 Bismark Analysis
#1156 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1209 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1228 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1252 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1285 0.000102 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1474 0.000002 350.org
#1658 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2204 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2507 0.000028 Harper's Open Letter
#2587 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3238 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3520 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3561 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3963 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4396 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5091 0.000002 EFF
#5482 0.000002 Anarachists
#7004 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7129 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7545 0.000002 Degrowth
#7880 0.000006 Ecomodernists

Crypto

#353 0.000426 Crypto VC
#970 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1101 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1157 0.000002 Polkadot
#1811 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2805 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2927 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2970 0.000002 Cosmos
#3295 0.000027 IDEO Founder Collective
#3571 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3705 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4147 0.000006 Crypto Investing
#4578 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#4866 0.000002 Ethereum
#7037 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure

Science

#1522 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1887 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2154 0.000079 Epidemiology Journalism
#3709 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8149 0.000002 Biotech

system

#5352 0.000035 Baseline

Informal Community

#7775 0.000014 Founders

Software Engineering

#1098 0.000002 Rust
#1648 0.000002 Zig

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