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?

Varad Mehta

Varad Mehta

@varadmehta

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#224 0.000543 American Enterprise Institute
#224 0.000543 National Bureau of Economic Research
#407 0.000289 Heritage Foundation
#500 0.000164 Hudson Institute
#892 0.000144 Hoover Institution
#1285 0.000038 Berggruen Institute
#1701 0.000071 Council on Foreign Relations
#2053 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2108 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2300 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2375 0.000020 Niskanen Center
#2388 0.000059 Brookings
#2977 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3106 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4003 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#5494 0.000014 Mercatus Center
#5507 0.000018 Center for American Progress
#5537 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6137 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#6451 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6903 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#8419 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#267 0.000539 The Dispatch
#358 0.000271 The New York Post
#540 0.000060 Newsmax
#1239 0.000108 The Atlantic
#1424 0.000093 Bloomberg Opinion
#1710 0.000073 The Los Angeles Times
#1865 0.000038 Palladium Magazine
#1988 0.000002 The Information
#2102 0.000001 OANN
#2161 0.000033 Washington Post
#2375 0.000020 Foreign Policy
#2513 0.000002 Stat News
#2558 0.000034 BuzzFeed
#2849 0.000002 The Verge
#3204 0.000044 The New York Times
#3304 0.000031 VICE
#3354 0.000034 Wall Street Journal
#3377 0.000033 Recode
#3464 0.000002 The Economist
#4061 0.000002 CNBC
#4138 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4936 0.000001 The Intercept
#4976 0.000002 Wired
#5349 0.000002 Financial Times
#6116 0.000002 Reuters
#9689 0.000001 Techcrunch

Culture and Political Economy

#342 0.000418 Moderate Conservatism
#367 0.000325 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#371 0.000295 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1230 0.000098 Bismark Analysis
#1393 0.000092 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1599 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1646 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1648 0.000051 Harper's Open Letter
#1759 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1787 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1829 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1871 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1880 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1912 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2099 0.000049 Persuasion Community
#2100 0.000049 Works in Progress
#2135 0.000002 350.org
#2322 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2566 0.000022 Heterodox Academy
#2752 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3273 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3806 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4013 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4131 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4894 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4927 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5174 0.000007 Progress Studies
#5593 0.000001 EFF
#6411 0.000001 Anarachists
#7426 0.000004 The Long Now Foundation
#8267 0.000001 Rationality
#8360 0.000001 Degrowth

system

#3119 0.000043 Think Tanks
#4680 0.000052 Baseline
#9421 0.000025 Reality-Based Community

Science

#2180 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2410 0.000038 Biotech
#2576 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4338 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5684 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#1645 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1758 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1823 0.000002 Polkadot
#2408 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3394 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3483 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3520 0.000001 Cosmos
#4370 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4413 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5834 0.000001 Ethereum
#6132 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6773 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8636 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9210 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1625 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1682 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2119 0.000002 Accel
#2510 0.000002 Sequioa
#2830 0.000001 Bessemer
#2997 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3236 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3371 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3450 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3844 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4127 0.000001 Homebrew
#5012 0.000001 Village Global
#5181 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6296 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#1765 0.000002 Rust
#2267 0.000001 Zig

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