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 Lester

Simon Lester

@snlester

cato.org/people/simon-l…

Associate Director @CatoTrade. Formerly @WTO. Founded WorldTradeLaw.net. Taught @MelbLawSchool, @UMichLaw, @AUWCL.

10522 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#23 0.002932 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#45 0.004250 Cato Institute
#282 0.000547 Mercatus Center
#419 0.000269 Heritage Foundation
#817 0.000182 American Enterprise Institute
#817 0.000182 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1223 0.000025 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1261 0.000047 Eurasia Group
#1753 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1802 0.000067 Council on Foreign Relations
#1808 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1952 0.000027 Hudson Institute
#2004 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2290 0.000015 Atlantic Council
#2311 0.000061 Brookings
#3043 0.000010 Niskanen Center
#3091 0.000032 Hoover Institution
#4090 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#4882 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5848 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6696 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8922 0.000006 Center for American Progress

system

#7 0.001644 Think Tanks
#152 0.000185 Reality-Based Community
#208 0.000255 Baseline

Journalism

#259 0.000556 The Dispatch
#662 0.000298 Financial Times
#716 0.000198 The Economist
#1690 0.000002 The Information
#2220 0.000002 Stat News
#2394 0.000001 OANN
#2399 0.000001 Newsmax
#2565 0.000002 The Verge
#3043 0.000010 Foreign Policy
#3780 0.000002 CNBC
#3865 0.000003 Reuters
#3872 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4726 0.000002 Wired
#4744 0.000010 The New York Post
#4963 0.000025 Bloomberg Opinion
#5170 0.000001 The Intercept
#5697 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6256 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6296 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7193 0.000002 VICE
#8636 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9496 0.000001 Recode
#9532 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9981 0.000002 Washington Post

Science

#913 0.000147 EconTwitter
#1881 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2276 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4059 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5904 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8743 0.000001 Biotech

Culture and Political Economy

#1152 0.000133 Moderate Conservatism
#1294 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1341 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1395 0.000084 RadicalxChange
#1458 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1485 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1525 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1569 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1584 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1609 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1833 0.000002 350.org
#2020 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#3022 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3032 0.000042 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3547 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3630 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4047 0.000017 Persuasion Community
#4234 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4307 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4411 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4718 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5152 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5183 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5833 0.000001 EFF
#6281 0.000003 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6765 0.000001 Anarachists
#8447 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8638 0.000001 Rationality
#8688 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#1340 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1462 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1521 0.000002 Polkadot
#2696 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3663 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3741 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3779 0.000001 Cosmos
#4653 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4751 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6264 0.000001 Ethereum
#6534 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7147 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8929 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9585 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1323 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1384 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1824 0.000002 Accel
#2219 0.000002 Sequioa
#2720 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3113 0.000001 Bessemer
#3501 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3653 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3724 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4110 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4372 0.000001 Homebrew
#5256 0.000001 Village Global
#5451 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6502 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#1463 0.000002 Rust
#2563 0.000001 Zig

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