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?

Robinson Meyer

Robinson Meyer

@yayitsrob

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#27 0.003128 The Atlantic
#545 0.000284 Foreign Policy
#897 0.000155 Recode
#897 0.000131 Ars Technica
#1168 0.000002 The Information
#1281 0.000103 Bloomberg Opinion
#1418 0.000059 Washington Post
#1487 0.000002 Newsmax
#1494 0.000002 OANN
#1711 0.000002 Stat News
#1921 0.000086 The New York Times
#2078 0.000002 The Verge
#2659 0.000002 The Economist
#2719 0.000046 The Intercept
#3018 0.000028 The Los Angeles Times
#3269 0.000002 CNBC
#3418 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3457 0.000030 The Dispatch
#3569 0.000008 Palladium Magazine
#3632 0.000004 Reuters
#4294 0.000002 Wired
#4539 0.000002 Financial Times
#5205 0.000003 Techcrunch
#5243 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5395 0.000018 New Yorker
#5490 0.000008 VICE
#8982 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#45 0.002373 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#49 0.002056 Earth Institute
#545 0.000284 Niskanen Center
#756 0.000164 Council on Foreign Relations
#1070 0.000135 Brookings
#1085 0.000144 Center for American Progress
#1228 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1287 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1306 0.000045 Eurasia Group
#1483 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1717 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#1777 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2079 0.000062 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2180 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2461 0.000010 Berggruen Institute
#2867 0.000045 Mercatus Center
#3215 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3999 0.000032 American Enterprise Institute
#3999 0.000032 National Bureau of Economic Research
#7075 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8556 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9202 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#67 0.001816 Environmental Journalists
#77 0.001161 Ecomodernists
#754 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#803 0.000002 Fair Vote
#847 0.000146 EFF
#927 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#950 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#987 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1044 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1063 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1089 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1163 0.000094 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1308 0.000002 350.org
#1419 0.000054 Degrowth
#1496 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1924 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#2657 0.000020 Effective Altruism
#2760 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2804 0.000045 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3210 0.000024 The Long Now Foundation
#3245 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3525 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3560 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3569 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3968 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4404 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4704 0.000013 Persuasion Community
#5002 0.000007 Progress Studies
#5491 0.000002 Anarachists
#6656 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
#7009 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7720 0.000002 Rationality
#8129 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Science

#78 0.001600 Epidemiology Journalism
#113 0.000652 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#325 0.000479 ClimateTwitter
#1310 0.000084 Epidimiology Twitter
#1715 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4011 0.000021 Biotech
#5466 0.000011 EconTwitter

Venture Capital

#312 0.000512 My Climate Journey
#786 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#856 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1303 0.000002 Accel
#1705 0.000002 Sequioa
#2218 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2247 0.000002 Bessemer
#2777 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2909 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3301 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3645 0.000002 Homebrew
#4437 0.000002 Village Global
#4640 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#4673 0.000005 Khosla Ventures
#9481 0.000005 A16Z

system

#86 0.000345 Baseline
#116 0.000204 Reality-Based Community
#1221 0.000131 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#1071 0.000126 Founders

Crypto

#800 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#939 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#990 0.000002 Polkadot
#1819 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2813 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2935 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2977 0.000002 Cosmos
#3580 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3714 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4875 0.000002 Ethereum
#5297 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5890 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7913 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8348 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#930 0.000002 Rust
#1656 0.000002 Zig

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