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?

Ryan Hoover

Ryan Hoover

@rrhoover

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#46 0.003526 Y Combinator
#72 0.001756 Khosla Ventures
#80 0.001224 A16Z
#235 0.000586 Village Global
#294 0.000630 Sutter Hill Ventures
#372 0.000152 Accel
#376 0.000425 Benchmark Capital
#409 0.000410 My Climate Journey
#484 0.000298 Sequioa
#508 0.000286 Initialized Capital
#664 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#738 0.000003 Founders Fund
#2224 0.000061 Homebrew
#2507 0.000001 Bessemer
#3050 0.000001 Index Ventures

Crypto

#123 0.001076 Crypto VC
#187 0.000756 IDEO Founder Collective
#656 0.000215 Crypto Journalists
#678 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#818 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#867 0.000003 Polkadot
#1185 0.000078 Crypto Infrastructure
#1812 0.000035 Crypto Investing
#2053 0.000026 Decentralized Web
#2084 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2325 0.000013 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3074 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3222 0.000001 Cosmos
#3959 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5318 0.000001 Ethereum

Journalism

#175 0.000878 The Information
#1568 0.000018 Techcrunch
#1590 0.000003 Stat News
#1728 0.000044 Palladium Magazine
#1770 0.000001 OANN
#1770 0.000001 Newsmax
#1972 0.000003 The Verge
#2543 0.000003 The Economist
#3147 0.000003 CNBC
#3312 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4202 0.000003 Wired
#4432 0.000003 Financial Times
#4707 0.000001 The Intercept
#5136 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5722 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6539 0.000002 Reuters
#6636 0.000003 VICE
#7369 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#8509 0.000003 Washington Post
#8832 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8939 0.000001 Recode
#9200 0.000001 The Dispatch

Informal Community

#919 0.000145 Founders

Culture and Political Economy

#631 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#680 0.000003 Fair Vote
#808 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#828 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#866 0.000003 Existential Risks
#924 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#942 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#970 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1052 0.000117 The Long Now Foundation
#1152 0.000138 Progress Studies
#1187 0.000003 350.org
#1374 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2461 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2738 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3002 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3495 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3754 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3765 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3825 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4189 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4609 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4645 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5325 0.000001 EFF
#5945 0.000001 Anarachists
#7254 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7328 0.000002 Rationality
#7417 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7965 0.000001 Degrowth

Science

#1239 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1594 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3417 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4806 0.000016 Biotech
#5392 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#809 0.000003 Rust
#1934 0.000001 Zig

Think Tanks

#1108 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1168 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1363 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1599 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2062 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2673 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3105 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4350 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5151 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6192 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7265 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7369 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7604 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8055 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8234 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9558 0.000001 Hoover Institution

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