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?

Sarah McLaughlin

Sarah McLaughlin

@sarahemclaugh

thefire.org/author/sarahm/

Advocate at @TheFIREorg. Tweets about free expression, dissent, and academic freedom. Campaigning to be the next Gritty Guard. Opinions are my own.

23635 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#3 0.059245 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#59 0.001987 Heterodox Academy
#114 0.001167 Social Epistemology
#595 0.000201 Rationality
#834 0.000147 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1186 0.000099 Persuasion Community
#1248 0.000095 The Long Now Foundation
#1429 0.000057 Harper's Open Letter
#1551 0.000080 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2579 0.000048 EFF
#2811 0.000010 Anarachists
#2857 0.000034 Moderate Conservatism
#5301 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5347 0.000001 Fair Vote
#5422 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#5440 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5482 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5513 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#5521 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5527 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5583 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5812 0.000001 350.org
#5899 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#5987 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6434 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6539 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6827 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#6975 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7444 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#7478 0.000000 Black Lives Matter

Think Tanks

#788 0.000189 Niskanen Center
#1643 0.000094 American Enterprise Institute
#1643 0.000094 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1828 0.000081 Brookings
#3973 0.000029 Council on Foreign Relations
#4185 0.000020 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5026 0.000017 Mercatus Center
#5688 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5750 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5934 0.000001 Urban Institute
#6060 0.000009 Hoover Institution
#6143 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6521 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6589 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#6591 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7166 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#7453 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#8218 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8306 0.000001 Eurasia Group

Journalism

#788 0.000189 Foreign Policy
#991 0.000140 The Dispatch
#1047 0.000117 New Yorker
#1410 0.000044 The Daily Beast
#1646 0.000068 Ars Technica
#2499 0.000052 The Intercept
#3532 0.000017 The New York Post
#4017 0.000031 The Atlantic
#4928 0.000000 OANN
#4947 0.000000 Newsmax
#5617 0.000001 The Information
#6109 0.000001 Stat News
#6140 0.000002 Techcrunch
#6390 0.000001 The Verge
#6441 0.000010 Wall Street Journal
#6986 0.000001 The Economist
#7575 0.000001 CNBC
#8236 0.000001 Wired
#8365 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#8775 0.000001 Financial Times
#9022 0.000012 Bloomberg Opinion
#9181 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9814 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Venture Capital

#5319 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5347 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5586 0.000000 Bessemer
#5753 0.000001 Accel
#5871 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6090 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6122 0.000001 Sequioa
#6130 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6455 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6535 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6605 0.000000 Homebrew
#7482 0.000000 Village Global
#7767 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#8490 0.000000 Khosla Ventures
#9807 0.000005 A16Z

Crypto

#5192 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5344 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5434 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#5507 0.000001 Polkadot
#6091 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6098 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6138 0.000000 Cosmos
#7077 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7356 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8337 0.000004 Crypto VC
#8581 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure
#9175 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9230 0.000000 Ethereum
#9706 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Science

#5838 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6247 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7779 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8010 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#5089 0.000000 Zig
#5429 0.000001 Rust

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