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?

Benjy Sarlin

Benjy Sarlin

@BenjySarlin

Policy editor at @NBCNews. I cover elections and their consequences. Take it off Twitter at Benjy.Sarlin@nbcuni.com.

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#20 0.004788 Niskanen Center
#173 0.000690 Center for American Progress
#279 0.000466 American Enterprise Institute
#279 0.000466 National Bureau of Economic Research
#355 0.000365 Brookings
#667 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#724 0.000005 Belfer Center
#875 0.000142 Council on Foreign Relations
#932 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1129 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1421 0.000005 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1595 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1662 0.000035 Eurasia Group
#1682 0.000023 Berggruen Institute
#1976 0.000077 Mercatus Center
#2621 0.000016 Hudson Institute
#2656 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#3544 0.000005 Earth Institute
#4499 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#5550 0.000005 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6481 0.000005 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7155 0.000005 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#20 0.004788 Foreign Policy
#49 0.001778 The New York Times
#86 0.001036 The Atlantic
#109 0.001297 The Dispatch
#159 0.000861 The Intercept
#198 0.000724 The Daily Beast
#204 0.000507 Ars Technica
#313 0.000304 The New York Post
#334 0.000366 Washington Post
#391 0.000379 VICE
#473 0.000250 Bloomberg Opinion
#523 0.000223 New Yorker
#612 0.000278 Wall Street Journal
#621 0.000005 The Information
#647 0.000213 Recode
#784 0.000164 BuzzFeed
#886 0.000005 Newsmax
#897 0.000177 The Los Angeles Times
#902 0.000005 OANN
#915 0.000135 The Verge
#1007 0.000036 Reuters
#1149 0.000005 Stat News
#2078 0.000005 The Economist
#2228 0.000008 Techcrunch
#2657 0.000005 CNBC
#3858 0.000005 Wired
#3981 0.000005 Financial Times
#4260 0.000005 Palladium Magazine

Culture and Political Economy

#94 0.000877 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#168 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#182 0.000679 Moderate Conservatism
#218 0.000005 Fair Vote
#332 0.000360 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#352 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#368 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#405 0.000005 Existential Risks
#423 0.000168 Harper's Open Letter
#478 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#499 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#519 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#614 0.000154 Effective Altruism
#737 0.000005 350.org
#927 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#958 0.000169 Environmental Journalists
#1127 0.000113 Works in Progress
#1791 0.000058 Persuasion Community
#1827 0.000064 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1874 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#1981 0.000053 Rationality
#2158 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2723 0.000005 RadicalxChange
#2833 0.000005 Populist Libertarians
#3071 0.000005 Heterodox Academy
#3103 0.000008 Anarachists
#3220 0.000005 Social Epistemology
#3306 0.000032 Ecomodernists
#3677 0.000022 Progress Studies
#3924 0.000005 Black Lives Matter
#4646 0.000005 EFF
#6153 0.000005 Degrowth
#7337 0.000005 The Long Now Foundation

Venture Capital

#209 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#306 0.000005 Founders Fund
#724 0.000262 Homebrew
#756 0.000005 Accel
#1149 0.000005 Sequioa
#1598 0.000085 Initialized Capital
#1715 0.000005 Bessemer
#1719 0.000005 Y Combinator
#1982 0.000005 Index Ventures
#2021 0.000055 Khosla Ventures
#2225 0.000005 My Climate Journey
#2418 0.000005 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2797 0.000019 Village Global
#2850 0.000005 Benchmark Capital
#8220 0.000007 A16Z

system

#2157 0.000139 Baseline
#3077 0.000044 Think Tanks
#8243 0.000071 Reality-Based Community

Science

#795 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1111 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#1454 0.000119 Epidemiology Journalism
#2812 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#7566 0.000005 Biotech
#7829 0.000005 EconTwitter
#8559 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#9183 0.000011 Founders

Crypto

#215 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#381 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#413 0.000005 Polkadot
#1276 0.000005 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2302 0.000005 Crypto Angels
#2441 0.000005 Public Goods Funding
#2484 0.000005 Crypto Journalists
#2514 0.000005 Cosmos
#2926 0.000005 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3431 0.000005 Ethereum
#3721 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#4499 0.000005 Crypto Investing
#6471 0.000005 IDEO Founder Collective
#6500 0.000005 Crypto Infrastructure
#7807 0.000005 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#350 0.000005 Rust
#1062 0.000005 Zig

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