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?

Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan

@bryan_caplan

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#5 0.037376 Rationality
#36 0.002620 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#217 0.000656 Social Epistemology
#373 0.000263 Effective Altruism
#411 0.000373 Bismark Analysis
#479 0.000296 RadicalxChange
#1698 0.000087 Progress Studies
#1810 0.000057 Heterodox Academy
#2646 0.000007 Populist Libertarians
#4548 0.000012 The Long Now Foundation
#5824 0.000009 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6127 0.000012 Ecomodernists
#7104 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#7148 0.000001 Fair Vote
#7236 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#7284 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#7302 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#7314 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#7320 0.000001 Existential Risks
#7373 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#7607 0.000001 350.org
#7776 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund

Think Tanks

#4 0.019289 Mercatus Center
#472 0.000217 Cato Institute
#667 0.000128 Berggruen Institute
#1261 0.000092 Hoover Institution
#3886 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#7472 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#7531 0.000001 Belfer Center
#7718 0.000001 Urban Institute
#7901 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#9179 0.000001 Atlantic Council

Crypto

#50 0.002822 Public Goods Funding
#83 0.001607 Ethereum
#166 0.001199 Crypto Political Economy
#514 0.000228 Crypto Infrastructure
#824 0.000091 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1222 0.000048 Cosmos
#1297 0.000096 Crypto VC
#1452 0.000078 Crypto Journalists
#1753 0.000037 Crypto Investing
#2172 0.000011 Crypto Angels
#2603 0.000014 Decentralized Web
#6557 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective
#7145 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#7305 0.000001 Polkadot

system

#229 0.000753 Think Tanks
#1215 0.000153 Baseline
#1872 0.000087 Reality-Based Community

Journalism

#837 0.000123 Palladium Magazine
#3886 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#5052 0.000024 Bloomberg Opinion
#7393 0.000001 The Information
#7873 0.000001 Stat News
#8135 0.000001 The Verge
#8725 0.000001 The Economist
#9187 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#9290 0.000001 CNBC
#9884 0.000000 OANN
#9906 0.000001 Wired
#9908 0.000000 Newsmax

Science

#6859 0.000007 EconTwitter
#7629 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#8037 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#9490 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Venture Capital

#7120 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#7146 0.000001 Founders Fund
#7540 0.000001 Accel
#7900 0.000001 Sequioa
#8282 0.000001 Y Combinator

Software Engineering

#7223 0.000001 Rust

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