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?

Robby Soave

Robby Soave

@robbysoave

reason.com

@reason senior editor. 2016 @forbes 30 Under 30 list. Author of "Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump." Available now: bit.ly/2t6lO23

76389 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#28 0.005779 Founders Fund
#287 0.000485 Khosla Ventures
#603 0.000252 Benchmark Capital
#953 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#989 0.000175 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1465 0.000002 Accel
#1619 0.000077 Village Global
#1867 0.000002 Sequioa
#2373 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2517 0.000001 Bessemer
#2950 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3060 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3229 0.000027 Initialized Capital
#3874 0.000001 Homebrew
#6096 0.000013 A16Z

Think Tanks

#33 0.002048 American Enterprise Institute
#33 0.002048 National Bureau of Economic Research
#93 0.000990 Hoover Institution
#410 0.000281 Cato Institute
#577 0.000274 Mercatus Center
#1394 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1449 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1464 0.000040 Eurasia Group
#1492 0.000081 Council on Foreign Relations
#1592 0.000039 Hudson Institute
#1647 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1877 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2682 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3365 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3408 0.000028 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#3780 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#4001 0.000032 Brookings
#4359 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5159 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8063 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9422 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#65 0.001914 The Dispatch
#254 0.000561 The Intercept
#304 0.000231 Newsmax
#439 0.000265 Bloomberg Opinion
#512 0.000321 Wall Street Journal
#582 0.000166 The New York Post
#950 0.000141 The Atlantic
#1332 0.000002 The Information
#1582 0.000108 The New York Times
#1780 0.000001 OANN
#1872 0.000002 Stat News
#2229 0.000002 The Verge
#2821 0.000002 The Economist
#3435 0.000002 CNBC
#3560 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3639 0.000030 Recode
#3780 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#4428 0.000002 Wired
#4701 0.000002 Financial Times
#4740 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5406 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5996 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6366 0.000002 Techcrunch
#6778 0.000002 Reuters
#6890 0.000002 VICE
#7538 0.000003 Washington Post

Culture and Political Economy

#79 0.001292 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#97 0.001367 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#155 0.000759 Moderate Conservatism
#179 0.000526 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#203 0.000758 Claremont Institute
#207 0.000491 Populist Libertarians
#303 0.000539 Heterodox Academy
#429 0.000269 Persuasion Community
#561 0.000132 Harper's Open Letter
#880 0.000191 Social Epistemology
#923 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#971 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1027 0.000132 Bismark Analysis
#1089 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1118 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1155 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1227 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1251 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1473 0.000002 350.org
#1547 0.000072 Rationality
#1657 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1996 0.000053 Works in Progress
#2357 0.000055 Progress Studies
#2469 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2876 0.000029 The Long Now Foundation
#2897 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3505 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4619 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4653 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#4751 0.000002 Anarachists
#5332 0.000001 EFF
#7974 0.000001 Degrowth
#8179 0.000006 Ecomodernists

system

#988 0.000181 Think Tanks
#4284 0.000074 Baseline
#8798 0.000037 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#969 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1100 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1156 0.000002 Polkadot
#2094 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2276 0.000048 Crypto VC
#3084 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3185 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3232 0.000001 Cosmos
#3952 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#3972 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4041 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4156 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4305 0.000002 Ethereum
#5497 0.000007 Crypto Infrastructure
#8257 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#1521 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1886 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3708 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5400 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8329 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1097 0.000002 Rust
#1944 0.000001 Zig

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