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?

Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn

@Nate_Cohn

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#42 0.002800 Niskanen Center
#290 0.000460 Center for American Progress
#1097 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1156 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1205 0.000126 American Enterprise Institute
#1205 0.000126 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1344 0.000043 Eurasia Group
#1352 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1455 0.000084 Council on Foreign Relations
#1587 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2050 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2136 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2732 0.000050 Brookings
#3095 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3425 0.000010 Hudson Institute
#3937 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#3997 0.000026 Mercatus Center
#4604 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5879 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7042 0.000005 Hoover Institution
#7107 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7981 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#42 0.002800 Foreign Policy
#76 0.001067 New Yorker
#170 0.000780 Washington Post
#633 0.000203 The Atlantic
#655 0.000212 The Dispatch
#660 0.000189 Ars Technica
#1045 0.000003 The Information
#1365 0.000002 Newsmax
#1372 0.000002 OANN
#1400 0.000098 Recode
#1579 0.000003 Stat News
#1693 0.000077 Bloomberg Opinion
#1961 0.000003 The Verge
#2132 0.000062 The Intercept
#2458 0.000064 The New York Times
#2533 0.000003 The Economist
#2831 0.000005 Reuters
#3135 0.000003 CNBC
#3290 0.000016 Financial Times
#3303 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4086 0.000013 The New York Post
#4195 0.000003 Wired
#4377 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4711 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5127 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5710 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6624 0.000003 VICE
#8823 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Science

#96 0.000821 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1582 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3407 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4970 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#7452 0.000008 ClimateTwitter
#8078 0.000002 Biotech

Culture and Political Economy

#145 0.000610 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#424 0.000168 Harper's Open Letter
#619 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#668 0.000003 Fair Vote
#796 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#806 0.000205 Social Epistemology
#816 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#854 0.000003 Existential Risks
#912 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#930 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#958 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1046 0.000113 Rationality
#1174 0.000072 Effective Altruism
#1175 0.000003 350.org
#1278 0.000112 Moderate Conservatism
#1362 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1649 0.000050 Environmental Journalists
#1775 0.000061 The Long Now Foundation
#1959 0.000061 Ecomodernists
#2004 0.000052 Works in Progress
#2037 0.000069 Progress Studies
#2464 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2657 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2739 0.000032 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3145 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3424 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3456 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3733 0.000020 Persuasion Community
#3802 0.000021 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4305 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4636 0.000003 Anarachists
#5005 0.000002 EFF
#7372 0.000002 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#579 0.000220 Khosla Ventures
#652 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#726 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1178 0.000003 Accel
#1587 0.000003 Sequioa
#2105 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2142 0.000002 Bessemer
#2599 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2652 0.000022 Village Global
#2670 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2735 0.000040 Initialized Capital
#2804 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3210 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3566 0.000002 Homebrew
#7973 0.000007 A16Z

system

#1696 0.000086 Think Tanks
#4790 0.000048 Baseline
#9056 0.000031 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#666 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#806 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#855 0.000003 Polkadot
#1706 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2705 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2834 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2881 0.000002 Cosmos
#3364 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3564 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4629 0.000002 Ethereum
#5071 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5407 0.000008 Crypto Infrastructure
#5668 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7730 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#797 0.000003 Rust
#1532 0.000002 Zig

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