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?

nic carter

nic carter

@nic__carter

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#13 0.017134 Standard Crypto
#214 0.000008 Founders Fund
#413 0.000376 Village Global
#551 0.000130 Bessemer
#594 0.000252 A16Z
#611 0.000306 My Climate Journey
#666 0.000008 Accel
#1059 0.000008 Sequioa
#1602 0.000008 Y Combinator
#1604 0.000075 Khosla Ventures
#1868 0.000005 Index Ventures
#2320 0.000051 Initialized Capital
#2404 0.000005 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2837 0.000005 Benchmark Capital
#3256 0.000005 Homebrew

Crypto

#14 0.005887 Crypto Journalists
#26 0.006031 Crypto Investing
#37 0.002765 Crypto VC
#47 0.003284 Crypto Angels
#49 0.002932 Public Goods Funding
#50 0.002057 Ethereum
#68 0.002238 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#78 0.001478 Cosmos
#80 0.001651 Crypto Infrastructure
#112 0.000008 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#116 0.001133 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#197 0.000726 IDEO Founder Collective
#242 0.000556 Decentralized Web
#284 0.000008 Crypto Political Economy
#313 0.000008 Polkadot

Journalism

#136 0.001503 The Verge
#232 0.000670 Foreign Policy
#235 0.000530 Palladium Magazine
#489 0.000244 Bloomberg Opinion
#532 0.000008 The Information
#858 0.000005 OANN
#862 0.000005 Newsmax
#1012 0.000065 CNBC
#1020 0.000008 Stat News
#1428 0.000023 Techcrunch
#1796 0.000088 Wall Street Journal
#1951 0.000008 The Economist
#2025 0.000008 Reuters
#2642 0.000008 The Daily Beast
#3423 0.000030 Ars Technica
#3718 0.000008 Wired
#3763 0.000008 Financial Times
#4140 0.000005 The Intercept
#4396 0.000008 BuzzFeed
#4758 0.000008 The Los Angeles Times
#5300 0.000008 Washington Post
#5353 0.000008 The New York Post
#5626 0.000008 VICE
#6285 0.000015 New Yorker
#6770 0.000005 The Dispatch
#6785 0.000017 The Atlantic
#6938 0.000005 Recode
#9377 0.000008 The New York Times

Culture and Political Economy

#65 0.000008 Schumacher Circle
#115 0.000008 Fair Vote
#122 0.000774 Harper's Open Letter
#229 0.000575 RadicalxChange
#250 0.000008 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#266 0.000008 Extinction Rebellion
#281 0.000387 Rationality
#303 0.000008 Existential Risks
#378 0.000008 Claremont Institute
#395 0.000322 The Long Now Foundation
#398 0.000008 Ecosocialism
#419 0.000008 Sierra Clib
#421 0.000382 Progress Studies
#635 0.000008 350.org
#668 0.000219 Bismark Analysis
#829 0.000008 Environmental Defense Fund
#920 0.000120 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1386 0.000088 Works in Progress
#1441 0.000086 Ecomodernists
#1476 0.000088 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1612 0.000086 Social Epistemology
#1707 0.000005 Environmental Journalists
#1831 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#2759 0.000005 Populist Libertarians
#3054 0.000005 Heterodox Academy
#3535 0.000005 Anarachists
#3870 0.000005 Effective Altruism
#3908 0.000005 Black Lives Matter
#4617 0.000005 EFF
#4825 0.000013 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6002 0.000005 Degrowth
#6079 0.000005 Moderate Conservatism
#6696 0.000007 Persuasion Community

Think Tanks

#232 0.000670 Niskanen Center
#467 0.000335 Mercatus Center
#568 0.000008 RAND Corporation
#631 0.000008 Belfer Center
#839 0.000008 Urban Institute
#964 0.000038 Cato Institute
#1022 0.000008 Heritage Foundation
#1053 0.000132 Atlantic Council
#1371 0.000005 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1757 0.000087 American Enterprise Institute
#1757 0.000087 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3084 0.000005 Berggruen Institute
#3226 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3337 0.000014 Eurasia Group
#3427 0.000005 Earth Institute
#3856 0.000008 Hudson Institute
#4975 0.000023 Council on Foreign Relations
#5531 0.000005 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5604 0.000009 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6822 0.000006 Hoover Institution
#9128 0.000006 Center for American Progress
#9547 0.000009 Brookings

Informal Community

#673 0.000186 Founders

system

#1148 0.000144 Think Tanks
#5714 0.000030 Baseline
#8685 0.000040 Reality-Based Community

Science

#694 0.000008 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#975 0.000008 Philosophy Twitter
#1412 0.000073 Biotech
#2568 0.000008 Epidimiology Twitter
#3690 0.000022 EconTwitter
#4038 0.000005 Epidemiology Journalism
#7505 0.000008 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#249 0.000008 Rust
#1038 0.000005 Zig

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