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?

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

@senatorshoshana

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#14 0.004283 Moderate Conservatism
#39 0.002367 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#96 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#146 0.000006 Fair Vote
#237 0.000600 Social Epistemology
#241 0.000406 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#281 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#297 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#334 0.000006 Existential Risks
#346 0.000471 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#407 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#421 0.000271 Persuasion Community
#428 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#450 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#548 0.000214 Rationality
#618 0.000220 Works in Progress
#666 0.000006 350.org
#859 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#1214 0.000068 Harper's Open Letter
#1537 0.000087 EFF
#1717 0.000085 Progress Studies
#1743 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1853 0.000038 Effective Altruism
#1896 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#2193 0.000004 Bismark Analysis
#2345 0.000013 Populist Libertarians
#2355 0.000030 Heterodox Academy
#2378 0.000041 The Long Now Foundation
#2737 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#2918 0.000039 Ecomodernists
#2985 0.000008 Anarachists
#3942 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#6278 0.000004 Degrowth

Journalism

#36 0.002777 The Dispatch
#263 0.000554 The Daily Beast
#284 0.000392 The Atlantic
#392 0.000299 Ars Technica
#405 0.000176 Reuters
#560 0.000006 The Information
#671 0.000149 The New York Post
#878 0.000167 Foreign Policy
#907 0.000004 Newsmax
#923 0.000004 OANN
#1067 0.000006 Stat News
#1080 0.000110 BuzzFeed
#1117 0.000117 Bloomberg Opinion
#1512 0.000006 The Verge
#1729 0.000066 Financial Times
#2001 0.000006 The Economist
#2056 0.000066 The Intercept
#2434 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2536 0.000006 CNBC
#2596 0.000025 Washington Post
#2845 0.000015 Palladium Magazine
#3603 0.000031 New Yorker
#3771 0.000006 Wired
#4396 0.000021 Wall Street Journal
#4540 0.000026 The New York Times
#4902 0.000006 The Los Angeles Times
#5595 0.000012 Recode
#5811 0.000006 VICE

Think Tanks

#95 0.001208 Mercatus Center
#119 0.000888 American Enterprise Institute
#119 0.000888 National Bureau of Economic Research
#129 0.001442 Cato Institute
#143 0.000457 Eurasia Group
#172 0.001149 Heritage Foundation
#421 0.000311 Brookings
#599 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#660 0.000006 Belfer Center
#833 0.000160 Hoover Institution
#867 0.000006 Urban Institute
#878 0.000167 Niskanen Center
#1080 0.000077 Hudson Institute
#1390 0.000095 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1447 0.000084 Council on Foreign Relations
#1459 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1519 0.000035 Adam Smith Institute
#1775 0.000043 Atlantic Council
#2906 0.000048 Center for American Progress
#3261 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#3636 0.000004 Earth Institute
#4011 0.000021 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

system

#464 0.000660 Think Tanks
#792 0.000108 Reality-Based Community
#956 0.000163 Baseline

Venture Capital

#139 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#241 0.000006 Founders Fund
#692 0.000006 Accel
#1091 0.000006 Sequioa
#1651 0.000006 Y Combinator
#1735 0.000004 Bessemer
#2046 0.000004 Index Ventures
#2100 0.000052 Khosla Ventures
#2240 0.000004 My Climate Journey
#2433 0.000004 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2865 0.000004 Benchmark Capital
#2933 0.000040 A16Z
#3146 0.000011 Village Global
#3279 0.000004 Homebrew
#4262 0.000004 Initialized Capital

Science

#725 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1033 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2132 0.000045 Biotech
#2692 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#2970 0.000032 EconTwitter
#4178 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#7981 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#2930 0.000044 Founders

Crypto

#143 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#313 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#342 0.000006 Polkadot
#1294 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2318 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2498 0.000004 Crypto Journalists
#2508 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2528 0.000004 Cosmos
#2976 0.000004 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3543 0.000004 Ethereum
#3823 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#4337 0.000017 IDEO Founder Collective
#4599 0.000004 Crypto Investing
#6641 0.000004 Crypto Infrastructure
#6745 0.000007 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#279 0.000006 Rust
#1081 0.000004 Zig

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