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 Scocca

Tom Scocca

@tomscocca

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#61 0.003322 Belfer Center
#765 0.000194 Niskanen Center
#1258 0.000040 Berggruen Institute
#1271 0.000146 Earth Institute
#1461 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1712 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1944 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#1983 0.000075 Center for American Progress
#2155 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2399 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2515 0.000056 Brookings
#3428 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4054 0.000032 American Enterprise Institute
#4054 0.000032 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5879 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#5976 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6394 0.000016 Council on Foreign Relations
#7071 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7743 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8552 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9201 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#458 0.000381 Environmental Journalists
#591 0.000196 Ecomodernists
#656 0.000176 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#957 0.000132 EFF
#991 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1039 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1042 0.000155 Social Epistemology
#1156 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1184 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1223 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1275 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1290 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1314 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1537 0.000002 350.org
#1721 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2078 0.000038 Harper's Open Letter
#2137 0.000046 Rationality
#2596 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2758 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2879 0.000044 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3243 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3484 0.000018 Degrowth
#3523 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3567 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3967 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4383 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4402 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4610 0.000014 Moderate Conservatism
#5487 0.000002 Anarachists
#7172 0.000006 Persuasion Community
#7569 0.000002 Progress Studies
#9949 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Journalism

#368 0.000324 The Atlantic
#395 0.000285 Bloomberg Opinion
#467 0.000257 New Yorker
#502 0.000284 VICE
#506 0.000298 The Intercept
#751 0.000134 The Daily Beast
#765 0.000194 Foreign Policy
#993 0.000108 The Verge
#1150 0.000160 The New York Times
#1396 0.000002 The Information
#1438 0.000057 Washington Post
#1485 0.000002 Newsmax
#1492 0.000002 OANN
#1936 0.000002 Stat News
#1981 0.000056 Ars Technica
#2043 0.000066 Recode
#2262 0.000007 Reuters
#2673 0.000045 The Dispatch
#2718 0.000006 Techcrunch
#2881 0.000002 The Economist
#3131 0.000020 The New York Post
#3492 0.000002 CNBC
#4223 0.000023 Wall Street Journal
#4480 0.000002 Wired
#4782 0.000002 Financial Times
#5461 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5507 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#6053 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times

Venture Capital

#1021 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1088 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1527 0.000002 Accel
#1863 0.000095 Homebrew
#1931 0.000002 Sequioa
#2015 0.000064 Initialized Capital
#2245 0.000002 Bessemer
#2436 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2697 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2775 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2907 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3299 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#4002 0.000010 Khosla Ventures
#4435 0.000002 Village Global

system

#4322 0.000071 Baseline
#7289 0.000018 Think Tanks
#8862 0.000035 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#4750 0.000025 Founders

Science

#1584 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1978 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3532 0.000021 Epidemiology Journalism
#3770 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8151 0.000002 Biotech

Crypto

#1037 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1165 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1224 0.000002 Polkadot
#1817 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2811 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2933 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2975 0.000002 Cosmos
#3274 0.000012 Crypto Investing
#3578 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3712 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4871 0.000002 Ethereum
#5294 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#7910 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8346 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1164 0.000002 Rust
#1654 0.000002 Zig

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