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?

Isaac Butler

Isaac Butler

@parabasis

slate.com/shakespeare

Cultural historian and critic. Co-host of Working (slate.com/working). Next book = The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act (Bloomsbury, 2022)

9883 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#758 0.000226 Environmental Journalists
#3209 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3255 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3357 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3391 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3432 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3450 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3458 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3507 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3738 0.000001 350.org
#3914 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4276 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4518 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4880 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4891 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5029 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5179 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5419 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5853 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5880 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6528 0.000016 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#6528 0.000001 EFF
#7226 0.000007 Harper's Open Letter
#7600 0.000001 Anarachists
#8125 0.000001 Rationality
#8375 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8611 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9108 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9612 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#1583 0.000080 New Yorker
#1661 0.000031 The Daily Beast
#2068 0.000065 The Intercept
#2462 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2842 0.000045 The Atlantic
#3199 0.000001 OANN
#3208 0.000001 Newsmax
#3371 0.000041 The New York Times
#3555 0.000001 The Information
#3662 0.000026 VICE
#4010 0.000014 The Los Angeles Times
#4068 0.000001 Stat News
#4377 0.000001 The Verge
#4797 0.000003 Reuters
#4989 0.000001 The Economist
#5585 0.000001 CNBC
#6359 0.000001 Wired
#6843 0.000001 Financial Times
#6902 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7353 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7647 0.000010 Ars Technica
#9959 0.000001 Foreign Policy

system

#6275 0.000025 Baseline

Think Tanks

#3632 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3685 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3871 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4091 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4457 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4513 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5486 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5581 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6553 0.000016 Brookings
#6608 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7379 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7989 0.000003 Hoover Institution
#9471 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9573 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9578 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9959 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Informal Community

#7598 0.000014 Founders

Science

#3765 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3905 0.000007 Epidemiology Journalism
#4177 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5823 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9338 0.000001 Biotech

Crypto

#3254 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3350 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3421 0.000001 Polkadot
#3472 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4425 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4469 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4515 0.000001 Cosmos
#5415 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5590 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7310 0.000001 Ethereum
#7443 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8025 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9680 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Venture Capital

#3230 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3271 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3694 0.000001 Accel
#3886 0.000001 Bessemer
#4068 0.000001 Sequioa
#4229 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4426 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4456 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4513 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4826 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5042 0.000001 Homebrew
#5934 0.000001 Village Global
#6162 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7093 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#3352 0.000001 Zig
#3355 0.000001 Rust

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