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?

Patrick McKenzie

Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

VaccinateTheStates.com

I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. At the moment, volunteering as CEO at Vaccinate The States. All views my own.

105096 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#6 0.009315 Progress Studies
#7 0.008812 Social Epistemology
#13 0.007959 The Long Now Foundation
#25 0.003956 Rationality
#42 0.003263 Bismark Analysis
#75 0.000007 Schumacher Circle
#125 0.000007 Fair Vote
#164 0.000555 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#231 0.000570 RadicalxChange
#260 0.000007 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#276 0.000007 Extinction Rebellion
#313 0.000007 Existential Risks
#329 0.000330 Effective Altruism
#386 0.000007 Claremont Institute
#408 0.000007 Ecosocialism
#429 0.000007 Sierra Clib
#535 0.000259 Works in Progress
#581 0.000319 Heterodox Academy
#645 0.000007 350.org
#839 0.000007 Environmental Defense Fund
#1008 0.000120 Ecomodernists
#1740 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1891 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#2332 0.000016 Anarachists
#2635 0.000037 Persuasion Community
#2892 0.000004 Populist Libertarians
#3680 0.000017 Harper's Open Letter
#3883 0.000020 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3939 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#4660 0.000004 EFF
#5923 0.000004 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6208 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6263 0.000004 Degrowth

Software Engineering

#43 0.006066 Rust
#137 0.000972 Zig

Venture Capital

#68 0.001291 A16Z
#77 0.002227 Y Combinator
#84 0.001681 Village Global
#95 0.001243 Initialized Capital
#119 0.000007 Standard Crypto
#156 0.000974 Khosla Ventures
#222 0.000007 Founders Fund
#273 0.000497 Accel
#363 0.000444 Benchmark Capital
#895 0.000203 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1069 0.000007 Sequioa
#1543 0.000120 My Climate Journey
#1734 0.000004 Bessemer
#2040 0.000004 Index Ventures
#2163 0.000065 Homebrew

Journalism

#144 0.001393 The Verge
#160 0.000802 Palladium Magazine
#292 0.000364 Bloomberg Opinion
#542 0.000007 The Information
#691 0.000281 Wired
#904 0.000004 Newsmax
#920 0.000004 OANN
#961 0.000147 Foreign Policy
#1037 0.000007 Stat News
#1835 0.000012 Techcrunch
#1970 0.000007 The Economist
#2112 0.000053 Ars Technica
#2467 0.000007 CNBC
#2597 0.000050 The Atlantic
#2667 0.000007 The Daily Beast
#2976 0.000005 Reuters
#3719 0.000028 Recode
#3817 0.000007 Financial Times
#4156 0.000004 The Intercept
#4451 0.000007 BuzzFeed
#4796 0.000007 The Los Angeles Times
#5472 0.000007 Washington Post
#5686 0.000017 New Yorker
#5709 0.000007 VICE
#7097 0.000004 The Dispatch
#7137 0.000007 Wall Street Journal
#7868 0.000004 The New York Post
#9644 0.000007 The New York Times

Think Tanks

#74 0.001389 Mercatus Center
#578 0.000007 RAND Corporation
#640 0.000007 Belfer Center
#849 0.000007 Urban Institute
#961 0.000147 Niskanen Center
#1033 0.000007 Heritage Foundation
#1451 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1486 0.000007 Cato Institute
#2540 0.000007 Atlantic Council
#3256 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#3402 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3629 0.000004 Earth Institute
#4626 0.000006 Hudson Institute
#4917 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5560 0.000004 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5852 0.000019 American Enterprise Institute
#5852 0.000019 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6769 0.000004 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7166 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#9798 0.000009 Council on Foreign Relations

Crypto

#114 0.001116 Crypto VC
#122 0.000007 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#166 0.001002 Public Goods Funding
#251 0.000549 Ethereum
#293 0.000007 Crypto Political Economy
#322 0.000007 Polkadot
#396 0.000318 Crypto Infrastructure
#410 0.000203 Cosmos
#553 0.000237 IDEO Founder Collective
#822 0.000091 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#969 0.000089 Crypto Investing
#1291 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2317 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2447 0.000017 Decentralized Web
#2496 0.000004 Crypto Journalists

Informal Community

#1409 0.000096 Founders

system

#7701 0.000018 Baseline

Science

#704 0.000007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1009 0.000007 Philosophy Twitter
#2619 0.000007 Epidimiology Twitter
#4171 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#6904 0.000007 EconTwitter
#7626 0.000004 Biotech
#7689 0.000007 ClimateTwitter

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