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 Thompson

Alex Thompson

@AlexThomp

alexthompson.substack.com

White House reporter and co-author of @Politico’s West Wing Playbook. writing a book on the Biden presidency, out in 2024. AThompson@politico.com. DMs open.

44251 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

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#342 0.000289 The New York Post
#349 0.000394 Recode
#485 0.000304 VICE
#648 0.000166 Washington Post
#673 0.000224 The Intercept
#854 0.000110 The Daily Beast
#1314 0.000126 Wall Street Journal
#1382 0.000038 CNBC
#1399 0.000099 The Dispatch
#1421 0.000095 Foreign Policy
#1563 0.000084 Bloomberg Opinion
#1596 0.000083 The Atlantic
#1782 0.000059 BuzzFeed
#2165 0.000049 The Los Angeles Times
#2295 0.000007 Reuters
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#7392 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7930 0.000009 Ars Technica

Think Tanks

#1421 0.000095 Niskanen Center
#1741 0.000022 Berggruen Institute
#2040 0.000025 Hudson Institute
#3419 0.000039 American Enterprise Institute
#3419 0.000039 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3796 0.000034 Brookings
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#3990 0.000001 Belfer Center
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#4174 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4393 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
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#5208 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5241 0.000019 Center for American Progress
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#7156 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7887 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8375 0.000001 Eurasia Group

system

#4262 0.000076 Baseline
#8646 0.000041 Reality-Based Community

Culture and Political Economy

#2646 0.000039 Moderate Conservatism
#2771 0.000025 Harper's Open Letter
#2903 0.000018 Social Epistemology
#3516 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3562 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3664 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3698 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3739 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3751 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3764 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3814 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4043 0.000001 350.org
#4218 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4310 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4818 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5176 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5437 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5559 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5732 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5939 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6382 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6411 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7038 0.000001 EFF
#7716 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7836 0.000012 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#8130 0.000001 Anarachists
#8455 0.000001 Rationality
#9102 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9594 0.000001 Progress Studies

Venture Capital

#3537 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3574 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3993 0.000001 Accel
#4365 0.000001 Sequioa
#4460 0.000001 Bessemer
#4785 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4808 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4992 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5005 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5291 0.000003 Khosla Ventures
#5373 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5568 0.000001 Homebrew
#6454 0.000001 Village Global
#6706 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#3561 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3654 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3727 0.000001 Polkadot
#4049 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4986 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5012 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5052 0.000001 Cosmos
#5975 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6199 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7978 0.000001 Ethereum
#8057 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8640 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#4068 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4481 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6102 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7034 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9786 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#3662 0.000001 Rust
#3931 0.000001 Zig

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