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?

Tom Wright

Tom Wright

@thomaswright08

brookings.edu/experts/thomas…

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution. Co-author of Aftershocks; author of All Measures Short of War. Contributing Writer @theatlantic. Views my own.

32738 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#17 0.003834 Brookings
#178 0.000553 Council on Foreign Relations
#209 0.000396 Hudson Institute
#227 0.000788 Atlantic Council
#324 0.000138 Belfer Center
#370 0.000132 Eurasia Group
#463 0.000226 Heritage Foundation
#997 0.000152 American Enterprise Institute
#997 0.000152 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1135 0.000138 Center for American Progress
#1214 0.000115 Niskanen Center
#1289 0.000009 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1343 0.000035 Berggruen Institute
#2134 0.000060 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2636 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2879 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3290 0.000030 Hoover Institution
#3541 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6163 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#6224 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7035 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#68 0.001407 The Atlantic
#496 0.000235 New Yorker
#1214 0.000115 Foreign Policy
#1348 0.000102 The Dispatch
#1673 0.000078 Bloomberg Opinion
#2217 0.000008 Reuters
#2521 0.000053 Wall Street Journal
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#2806 0.000001 OANN
#2811 0.000001 Newsmax
#2842 0.000025 Financial Times
#3082 0.000001 Stat News
#3380 0.000028 The Intercept
#3411 0.000001 The Verge
#4022 0.000001 The Economist
#4118 0.000030 The New York Times
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#6581 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7076 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7935 0.000001 VICE
#9768 0.000001 Recode

system

#39 0.001156 Think Tanks
#387 0.000136 Reality-Based Community
#413 0.000204 Baseline

Culture and Political Economy

#407 0.000272 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#719 0.000104 Harper's Open Letter
#748 0.000163 Persuasion Community
#966 0.000175 Heterodox Academy
#1139 0.000140 Social Epistemology
#1688 0.000077 Moderate Conservatism
#2121 0.000054 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2195 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2242 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2350 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2381 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2419 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2455 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2457 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2501 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2729 0.000001 350.org
#2908 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3161 0.000035 Ecomodernists
#3396 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3915 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4066 0.000015 Progress Studies
#4085 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4501 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4800 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5073 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5506 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5530 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6180 0.000001 EFF
#6856 0.000004 Rationality
#7217 0.000001 Anarachists
#8307 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9159 0.000001 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#877 0.000174 Village Global
#2219 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2270 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2701 0.000001 Accel
#3087 0.000001 Sequioa
#3507 0.000001 Bessemer
#3558 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3864 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4051 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4101 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4468 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4708 0.000001 Homebrew
#5816 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6802 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Science

#2764 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3177 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#3423 0.000038 ClimateTwitter
#4878 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#4948 0.000014 EconTwitter
#6248 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9049 0.000001 Biotech

Crypto

#2241 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2345 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2415 0.000001 Polkadot
#3088 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4044 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4104 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4153 0.000001 Cosmos
#5040 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5178 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6814 0.000001 Ethereum
#7006 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7620 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9300 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#2354 0.000001 Rust
#2967 0.000001 Zig

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