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?

Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg

@waltmossberg

Lens Rankings

Informal Community

#41 0.002405 Founders

Journalism

#70 0.001359 Recode
#152 0.001319 The Verge
#176 0.000905 Wired
#221 0.000683 Wall Street Journal
#262 0.000610 CNBC
#1921 0.000069 Bloomberg Opinion
#1934 0.000058 Ars Technica
#3345 0.000022 The Los Angeles Times
#3369 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3417 0.000033 New Yorker
#4699 0.000026 The Atlantic
#5090 0.000001 The Information
#5588 0.000001 Stat News
#6120 0.000000 OANN
#6142 0.000000 Newsmax
#6477 0.000001 The Economist
#6992 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#8283 0.000001 Financial Times
#8313 0.000000 The Intercept
#8708 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9411 0.000000 Palladium Magazine

Venture Capital

#118 0.000963 A16Z
#278 0.000508 Village Global
#482 0.000315 Benchmark Capital
#598 0.000210 Khosla Ventures
#700 0.000121 Index Ventures
#832 0.000222 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1912 0.000084 My Climate Journey
#2380 0.000044 Homebrew
#4789 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4823 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5231 0.000001 Accel
#5596 0.000001 Sequioa
#6018 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6763 0.000000 Bessemer
#8928 0.000000 Initialized Capital

Culture and Political Economy

#429 0.000411 Heterodox Academy
#2310 0.000056 EFF
#3985 0.000018 Persuasion Community
#4771 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4817 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4912 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4952 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4989 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4991 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5006 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5060 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5291 0.000001 350.org
#5461 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6565 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#7042 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#7272 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#7487 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#7703 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7976 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8081 0.000000 Works in Progress
#8561 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#8592 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8667 0.000005 Harper's Open Letter
#9462 0.000010 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

system

#4652 0.000053 Baseline
#9001 0.000032 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#4814 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4906 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4979 0.000001 Polkadot
#5537 0.000011 Crypto VC
#6382 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#7230 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#7263 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#7277 0.000000 Cosmos
#8221 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#8583 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Think Tanks

#5168 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5226 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5410 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5455 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#5623 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5647 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6007 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6951 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7931 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8266 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#9324 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9996 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Science

#5314 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5722 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7282 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9073 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#4902 0.000001 Rust
#6280 0.000000 Zig

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