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?

Alex Heard

Alex Heard

@alexheard

outsideonline.com

Editorial director, Outside magazine; author of The Eyes of Willie McGee & Apocalypse Pretty Soon. Cat fan. Bocce, hiking, cooking, and gardening enjoyer.

6571 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#186 0.000667 Moderate Conservatism
#1141 0.000132 Environmental Journalists
#1820 0.000056 Persuasion Community
#2742 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2789 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2893 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2926 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2966 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2996 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2998 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3044 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3074 0.000022 Harper's Open Letter
#3274 0.000001 350.org
#3451 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3457 0.000026 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4454 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4755 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5061 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5063 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5204 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5369 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5592 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6029 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6059 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6067 0.000018 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#6696 0.000001 EFF
#6853 0.000009 Ecomodernists
#7769 0.000001 Anarachists
#8768 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9273 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9561 0.000001 Rationality
#9819 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#255 0.000403 Bloomberg Opinion
#293 0.000258 Reuters
#373 0.000322 The Atlantic
#788 0.000175 Recode
#1037 0.000119 New Yorker
#1776 0.000094 The New York Times
#2064 0.000059 Wired
#2333 0.000052 The Dispatch
#2363 0.000046 Ars Technica
#2585 0.000015 Foreign Policy
#3098 0.000001 The Information
#3397 0.000001 OANN
#3410 0.000001 Newsmax
#3613 0.000001 Stat News
#3619 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3932 0.000001 The Verge
#4349 0.000004 Palladium Magazine
#4543 0.000001 The Economist
#5108 0.000016 Wall Street Journal
#5143 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5149 0.000001 CNBC
#5632 0.000008 VICE
#5944 0.000001 The Intercept
#6409 0.000001 Financial Times
#6950 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7565 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Venture Capital

#842 0.000227 Homebrew
#2625 0.000042 Initialized Capital
#2763 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2807 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3242 0.000001 Accel
#3615 0.000001 Sequioa
#4076 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4078 0.000001 Bessemer
#4414 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4617 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4641 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5008 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5234 0.000003 Khosla Ventures
#6104 0.000001 Village Global

Science

#1446 0.000121 Epidemiology Journalism
#3307 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3715 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4010 0.000021 Biotech
#5372 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Think Tanks

#460 0.000110 Eurasia Group
#1534 0.000115 Earth Institute
#1844 0.000082 Center for American Progress
#2585 0.000015 Niskanen Center
#3171 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3224 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3414 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3436 0.000039 Brookings
#3520 0.000033 Council on Foreign Relations
#3636 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4035 0.000032 American Enterprise Institute
#4035 0.000032 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4064 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4728 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5049 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5749 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7552 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9746 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9779 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

system

#4431 0.000064 Baseline
#9055 0.000031 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#2787 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2888 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2957 0.000001 Polkadot
#3668 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4618 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4657 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4694 0.000001 Cosmos
#5607 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5812 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7538 0.000001 Ethereum
#7650 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8214 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9874 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#2895 0.000001 Rust
#3549 0.000001 Zig

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