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?

Tom Nichols

Tom Nichols

@RadioFreeTom

amazon.com/Our-Own-Worst-…

Professor, author of "Our Own Worst Enemy." Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast. Board of Contributors, @USAToday, Contributing Writer, @TheAtlantic.

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#2 0.061236 Moderate Conservatism
#14 0.000016 Schumacher Circle
#33 0.002568 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#49 0.001628 Persuasion Community
#64 0.000016 Fair Vote
#91 0.000894 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#95 0.000956 Harper's Open Letter
#104 0.001247 Social Epistemology
#140 0.000979 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#189 0.000624 Ecomodernists
#201 0.000016 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#217 0.000016 Extinction Rebellion
#240 0.000445 Rationality
#252 0.000016 Existential Risks
#332 0.000016 Claremont Institute
#335 0.000287 Populist Libertarians
#349 0.000016 Ecosocialism
#374 0.000016 Sierra Clib
#588 0.000016 350.org
#781 0.000016 Environmental Defense Fund
#1014 0.000121 The Long Now Foundation
#1153 0.000124 Black Lives Matter
#1330 0.000061 Effective Altruism
#1677 0.000013 Environmental Journalists
#1740 0.000084 Progress Studies
#1752 0.000014 Climate Solutions
#1762 0.000017 Bismark Analysis
#1855 0.000050 RadicalxChange
#2187 0.000033 Degrowth
#2391 0.000052 EFF
#2494 0.000013 Anarachists
#2867 0.000013 Heterodox Academy
#3172 0.000013 Works in Progress

Journalism

#1 0.022710 The Atlantic
#17 0.004126 The Dispatch
#18 0.007273 The Daily Beast
#82 0.002124 Washington Post
#91 0.000965 Bloomberg Opinion
#158 0.000957 Foreign Policy
#176 0.000556 New Yorker
#274 0.000611 The Los Angeles Times
#350 0.000282 The New York Post
#405 0.000340 Recode
#421 0.000478 Wired
#481 0.000016 The Information
#538 0.000228 Ars Technica
#630 0.000155 Techcrunch
#715 0.000013 OANN
#777 0.000013 Newsmax
#782 0.000235 The New York Times
#817 0.000062 Reuters
#830 0.000125 Palladium Magazine
#920 0.000016 Stat News
#1418 0.000016 The Verge
#1776 0.000016 The Economist
#1985 0.000016 CNBC
#1994 0.000052 Financial Times
#3035 0.000035 VICE
#3596 0.000016 BuzzFeed
#3635 0.000030 Wall Street Journal
#4033 0.000013 The Intercept

Science

#23 0.006829 EconTwitter
#99 0.001322 Epidemiology Journalism
#200 0.000535 Biotech
#652 0.000016 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#709 0.000249 ClimateTwitter
#760 0.000219 Epidimiology Twitter
#848 0.000016 Philosophy Twitter

Think Tanks

#21 0.003712 Brookings
#22 0.002228 Eurasia Group
#23 0.003077 Center for American Progress
#57 0.002703 Atlantic Council
#68 0.001208 Council on Foreign Relations
#83 0.001169 American Enterprise Institute
#83 0.001169 National Bureau of Economic Research
#92 0.000930 Hudson Institute
#144 0.000953 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#158 0.000957 Niskanen Center
#188 0.000668 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#240 0.000548 Cato Institute
#289 0.000556 Earth Institute
#473 0.000332 Mercatus Center
#508 0.000249 Hoover Institution
#519 0.000016 RAND Corporation
#555 0.000163 Berggruen Institute
#555 0.000016 Belfer Center
#569 0.000156 Asia Society Policy Institute
#618 0.000145 Adam Smith Institute
#646 0.000095 Heritage Foundation
#792 0.000016 Urban Institute

Venture Capital

#62 0.000016 Standard Crypto
#67 0.001275 Bessemer
#169 0.000016 Founders Fund
#240 0.000680 Homebrew
#334 0.000570 Sutter Hill Ventures
#399 0.000416 My Climate Journey
#619 0.000016 Accel
#997 0.000016 Sequioa
#1094 0.000131 A16Z
#1287 0.000100 Khosla Ventures
#1366 0.000016 Y Combinator
#1448 0.000013 Index Ventures
#2190 0.000037 Village Global
#2745 0.000013 Benchmark Capital
#3801 0.000015 Initialized Capital

system

#29 0.000311 Reality-Based Community
#40 0.000437 Baseline
#263 0.000727 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#258 0.000370 Founders

Crypto

#61 0.000016 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#236 0.000016 Crypto Political Economy
#248 0.000016 Polkadot
#1210 0.000013 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1892 0.000013 Public Goods Funding
#2103 0.000013 Crypto Angels
#2227 0.000025 Crypto Investing
#2266 0.000013 Cosmos
#2307 0.000013 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2425 0.000042 IDEO Founder Collective
#2430 0.000013 Crypto Journalists
#2649 0.000013 Ethereum
#2676 0.000013 Decentralized Web
#3693 0.000024 Crypto VC
#3778 0.000016 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#199 0.000016 Rust
#986 0.000013 Zig

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