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?

Simon Willison

Simon Willison

@simonw

simonwillison.net

Creator of @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. @JSKstanford Fellow 2020. Collector of @nichemuseums. Usually hanging out with @natbat and @cleopaws. He/Him

24659 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#361 0.000166 Accel
#1626 0.000112 My Climate Journey
#3219 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3260 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4057 0.000001 Sequioa
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#7475 0.000000 Village Global
#7759 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#8485 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Journalism

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#4057 0.000001 Stat News
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#8821 0.000001 VICE

Software Engineering

#685 0.000116 Zig
#3344 0.000001 Rust

Crypto

#1731 0.000064 IDEO Founder Collective
#3243 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3339 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3410 0.000001 Polkadot
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#6712 0.000001 Ethereum
#7069 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7348 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9169 0.000000 Decentralized Web
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#9699 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Culture and Political Economy

#1965 0.000053 The Long Now Foundation
#2223 0.000061 Progress Studies
#3198 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3244 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3346 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3380 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3421 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3439 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3447 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3496 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3727 0.000001 350.org
#3903 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5414 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#5892 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#5908 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5921 0.000007 Rationality
#6407 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#6530 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6639 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#6820 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#6967 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7436 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#7471 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8078 0.000000 EFF
#9150 0.000000 Anarachists
#9750 0.000000 Moderate Conservatism

Informal Community

#6974 0.000016 Founders

Think Tanks

#3621 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3674 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3860 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4080 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4502 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5477 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6578 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7159 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#7897 0.000007 Mercatus Center
#8211 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8913 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Science

#3755 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4166 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5812 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8005 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

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