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?

Josh Wolfe

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#10 0.005934 Benchmark Capital
#84 0.002333 Accel
#124 0.001169 Khosla Ventures
#133 0.001047 My Climate Journey
#257 0.000544 Village Global
#269 0.000497 Initialized Capital
#458 0.000365 Y Combinator
#527 0.000338 Homebrew
#548 0.000272 A16Z
#929 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#967 0.000025 Sequioa
#1000 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1266 0.000025 Index Ventures
#1648 0.000089 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2453 0.000001 Bessemer

Science

#128 0.000722 Biotech
#1499 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1859 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3678 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5342 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Journalism

#221 0.000671 The Information
#1710 0.000001 Newsmax
#1711 0.000001 OANN
#1849 0.000002 Stat News
#2207 0.000002 The Verge
#2798 0.000002 The Economist
#2806 0.000006 Techcrunch
#3023 0.000039 Recode
#3413 0.000002 CNBC
#3541 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4006 0.000025 Ars Technica
#4411 0.000002 Wired
#4655 0.000001 The Intercept
#4673 0.000002 Financial Times
#4856 0.000009 Washington Post
#5182 0.000016 Wall Street Journal
#5376 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5697 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#5968 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6549 0.000014 New Yorker
#6750 0.000017 The Atlantic
#6866 0.000002 VICE
#7198 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#7302 0.000002 Reuters
#7360 0.000015 Bloomberg Opinion
#9062 0.000001 The Dispatch

Crypto

#385 0.000393 Crypto VC
#676 0.000192 IDEO Founder Collective
#945 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1077 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1132 0.000002 Polkadot
#1168 0.000052 Cosmos
#2028 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2078 0.000028 Crypto Investing
#3008 0.000009 Decentralized Web
#3019 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3123 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3590 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3857 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5207 0.000001 Ethereum
#8675 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Culture and Political Economy

#531 0.000242 The Long Now Foundation
#899 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#947 0.000002 Fair Vote
#966 0.000141 Bismark Analysis
#1065 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1094 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1131 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1186 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1205 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1227 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1449 0.000002 350.org
#1636 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2389 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2410 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2453 0.000029 Degrowth
#3443 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3700 0.000022 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3710 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3714 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3768 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4139 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4251 0.000014 Harper's Open Letter
#4442 0.000011 Progress Studies
#4557 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4600 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5224 0.000021 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5276 0.000001 EFF
#5838 0.000001 Anarachists
#7194 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7349 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7931 0.000001 Rationality

Think Tanks

#416 0.000226 Berggruen Institute
#1095 0.000103 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1370 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1426 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1624 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1855 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2314 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2361 0.000060 Mercatus Center
#2584 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3018 0.000046 American Enterprise Institute
#3018 0.000046 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3223 0.000011 Hudson Institute
#3345 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4646 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5072 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6565 0.000016 Brookings
#7119 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7198 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7982 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9461 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#2353 0.000057 Founders

system

#5527 0.000023 Think Tanks
#7823 0.000018 Baseline

Software Engineering

#1073 0.000002 Rust
#1876 0.000001 Zig

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