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?

Sophie Vershbow

Sophie Vershbow

@svershbow

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#48 0.004094 The Daily Beast
#530 0.000263 VICE
#570 0.000344 Wired
#1111 0.000166 The New York Times
#1247 0.000116 The Intercept
#1260 0.000080 The New York Post
#1302 0.000102 The Atlantic
#1314 0.000107 The Los Angeles Times
#1421 0.000088 New Yorker
#1873 0.000002 The Information
#2041 0.000001 OANN
#2043 0.000001 Newsmax
#2401 0.000002 Stat News
#2537 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2565 0.000006 Reuters
#2739 0.000002 The Verge
#2947 0.000026 BuzzFeed
#3357 0.000002 The Economist
#3569 0.000036 Bloomberg Opinion
#3772 0.000028 Wall Street Journal
#3958 0.000002 CNBC
#4064 0.000024 Ars Technica
#5242 0.000002 Financial Times
#5272 0.000010 The Dispatch
#5444 0.000007 Washington Post
#5711 0.000012 Recode
#5981 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6869 0.000002 Foreign Policy

Venture Capital

#186 0.000791 Homebrew
#1510 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1569 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2007 0.000002 Accel
#2399 0.000002 Sequioa
#2768 0.000001 Bessemer
#2889 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3182 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3307 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3395 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3790 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4964 0.000001 Village Global
#5125 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6251 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#9472 0.000005 A16Z

Think Tanks

#910 0.000156 Brookings
#1798 0.000070 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1938 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1994 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2188 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2418 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2866 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3029 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3233 0.000037 Council on Foreign Relations
#3893 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4586 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5123 0.000023 American Enterprise Institute
#5123 0.000023 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5469 0.000001 Earth Institute
#5541 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#5704 0.000017 Center for American Progress
#6399 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6869 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7734 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8843 0.000005 Mercatus Center
#9862 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Science

#1207 0.000143 Epidemiology Journalism
#2065 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2462 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4232 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8503 0.000001 Biotech

system

#3999 0.000127 Baseline
#8297 0.000063 Reality-Based Community

Culture and Political Economy

#1483 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1503 0.000084 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1530 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1644 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1671 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1714 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1755 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1767 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1796 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2019 0.000002 350.org
#2207 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2696 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2711 0.000026 Harper's Open Letter
#3205 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3236 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3740 0.000020 Persuasion Community
#3742 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3962 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3992 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4075 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4415 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4613 0.000014 Moderate Conservatism
#4843 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4869 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5540 0.000001 EFF
#5859 0.000007 Rationality
#6348 0.000001 Anarachists
#7281 0.000008 Ecomodernists
#7674 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8133 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8280 0.000001 Degrowth
#9768 0.000009 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

Crypto

#1529 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1643 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1708 0.000002 Polkadot
#2343 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3330 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3420 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3460 0.000001 Cosmos
#4280 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4328 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5718 0.000001 Ethereum
#6045 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6682 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8566 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9130 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1650 0.000002 Rust
#2203 0.000001 Zig

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