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?

Joe Bernstein

Joe Bernstein

@Bernstein

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I'm a @niemanfdn Fellow until May ‘21 | Normally I'm a reporter @BuzzFeedNews | | I’d love to hear from you — yes, you!

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

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#21 0.004679 Foreign Policy
#22 0.008379 The Information
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#68 0.001858 The Intercept
#185 0.000812 The New York Times
#268 0.000414 The Atlantic
#385 0.000310 New Yorker
#499 0.000336 The Verge
#537 0.000372 Wired
#694 0.000180 Ars Technica
#699 0.000189 VICE
#705 0.000275 Financial Times
#770 0.000165 Bloomberg Opinion
#890 0.000103 The Daily Beast
#995 0.000003 Newsmax
#1013 0.000003 OANN
#1201 0.000025 Reuters
#1338 0.000004 Stat News
#1416 0.000059 Washington Post
#1425 0.000023 Techcrunch
#1493 0.000090 The Los Angeles Times
#1553 0.000063 The New York Post
#2075 0.000062 The Dispatch
#2288 0.000004 The Economist
#2898 0.000004 CNBC
#4710 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#6331 0.000010 Wall Street Journal

Culture and Political Economy

#14 0.005887 Environmental Journalists
#353 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#403 0.000004 Fair Vote
#510 0.000237 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#536 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#551 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#589 0.000004 Existential Risks
#634 0.000117 Harper's Open Letter
#657 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#675 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#700 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#717 0.000207 Bismark Analysis
#916 0.000004 350.org
#1104 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1114 0.000096 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2010 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2832 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3043 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3143 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3266 0.000003 Social Epistemology
#3575 0.000003 Works in Progress
#4008 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4013 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4253 0.000003 Anarachists
#4723 0.000003 EFF
#5010 0.000010 The Long Now Foundation
#6093 0.000008 Persuasion Community
#6151 0.000005 Degrowth
#6396 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#6472 0.000003 Progress Studies
#6493 0.000005 Rationality
#7899 0.000006 Ecomodernists
#8189 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Think Tanks

#21 0.004679 Niskanen Center
#244 0.000739 Atlantic Council
#379 0.000436 Earth Institute
#842 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#900 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1102 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1270 0.000039 Berggruen Institute
#1313 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1575 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1682 0.000091 Center for American Progress
#1687 0.000089 Brookings
#1781 0.000086 American Enterprise Institute
#1781 0.000086 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1787 0.000004 Cato Institute
#2079 0.000024 Hudson Institute
#2115 0.000015 Adam Smith Institute
#2545 0.000054 Mercatus Center
#2981 0.000017 Eurasia Group
#3295 0.000036 Council on Foreign Relations
#5632 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6173 0.000006 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8013 0.000003 Hoover Institution

system

#54 0.000410 Baseline
#87 0.000226 Reality-Based Community
#2684 0.000051 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#391 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#437 0.000409 Homebrew
#475 0.000004 Founders Fund
#740 0.000176 Khosla Ventures
#922 0.000004 Accel
#1154 0.000126 Initialized Capital
#1344 0.000004 Sequioa
#1801 0.000003 Bessemer
#1878 0.000004 Y Combinator
#2210 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2298 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#2492 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2917 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#3820 0.000003 Village Global
#5471 0.000017 A16Z

Crypto

#400 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#554 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#596 0.000004 Polkadot
#953 0.000140 Crypto Journalists
#1375 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1486 0.000048 Crypto Investing
#2132 0.000052 Crypto VC
#2390 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2560 0.000009 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2588 0.000003 Cosmos
#2707 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3829 0.000003 Ethereum
#4141 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#5959 0.000006 Crypto Infrastructure
#6904 0.000003 IDEO Founder Collective

Informal Community

#8569 0.000012 Founders

Science

#970 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1314 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3129 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#3646 0.000012 Epidemiology Journalism
#7801 0.000003 Biotech
#9120 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9624 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#534 0.000004 Rust
#1164 0.000003 Zig

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