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?

Brandon Zhang

Brandon Zhang

@brandonthezhang

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#145 0.000941 Village Global
#688 0.000217 Initialized Capital
#755 0.000258 My Climate Journey
#866 0.000053 Bessemer
#905 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#975 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1342 0.000019 Index Ventures
#1383 0.000140 Homebrew
#1417 0.000002 Accel
#1659 0.000079 A16Z
#1819 0.000002 Sequioa
#2232 0.000048 Khosla Ventures
#2328 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3166 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3557 0.000001 Benchmark Capital

Culture and Political Economy

#430 0.000352 Bismark Analysis
#874 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#922 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1040 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1070 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1106 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1161 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1181 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1202 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1222 0.000127 Progress Studies
#1425 0.000002 350.org
#1611 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2471 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2838 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3507 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3762 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3773 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3834 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4199 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4368 0.000013 The Long Now Foundation
#4561 0.000025 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4620 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4655 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5334 0.000001 EFF
#5966 0.000001 Anarachists
#7268 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7427 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7978 0.000001 Degrowth
#8025 0.000001 Rationality

Crypto

#474 0.000160 Cosmos
#920 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1052 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1107 0.000002 Polkadot
#1201 0.000099 IDEO Founder Collective
#1324 0.000094 Crypto VC
#1969 0.000030 Crypto Investing
#2096 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2618 0.000027 Crypto Infrastructure
#3061 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3086 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3187 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3975 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4043 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5332 0.000001 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#1040 0.000154 Mercatus Center
#1346 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1401 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1599 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1831 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2290 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2685 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3322 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4360 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5111 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5163 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6129 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#6198 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7296 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7392 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#8066 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9572 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#2853 0.000046 Founders

Journalism

#1286 0.000002 The Information
#1579 0.000017 Techcrunch
#1781 0.000001 Newsmax
#1782 0.000001 OANN
#1825 0.000002 Stat News
#2185 0.000002 The Verge
#2773 0.000002 The Economist
#3389 0.000002 CNBC
#3520 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4390 0.000002 Wired
#4654 0.000002 Financial Times
#4715 0.000001 The Intercept
#4869 0.000025 Bloomberg Opinion
#5356 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5765 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#5948 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6844 0.000002 VICE
#7392 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#7599 0.000003 Washington Post
#8292 0.000001 Reuters
#8949 0.000001 Recode
#9107 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9217 0.000001 The Dispatch

Science

#1476 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1834 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3654 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5403 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8330 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1049 0.000002 Rust
#1946 0.000001 Zig

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