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?

Brendan Nyhan

Brendan Nyhan

@BrendanNyhan

sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/

@Dartmouth poli sci professor, @UpshotNYT contributor, @BrightLineWatch co-organizer. Before: @fordschool @umich / @CJR / Spinsanity / All the President's Spin.

90438 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#93 0.001412 Social Epistemology
#142 0.001015 Heterodox Academy
#191 0.000565 Rationality
#210 0.000450 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#469 0.000234 EFF
#563 0.000258 RadicalxChange
#630 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#679 0.000003 Fair Vote
#766 0.000161 Persuasion Community
#803 0.000198 Progress Studies
#807 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#827 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#865 0.000003 Existential Risks
#923 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#941 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#969 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1186 0.000003 350.org
#1360 0.000091 Ecomodernists
#1373 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1428 0.000098 Moderate Conservatism
#1500 0.000055 Harper's Open Letter
#1514 0.000077 Works in Progress
#1793 0.000039 Effective Altruism
#1881 0.000061 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2200 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2584 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2748 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3556 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4392 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5474 0.000002 Anarachists
#7122 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7537 0.000002 Degrowth
#9923 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Journalism

#248 0.000645 The Economist
#293 0.000535 Foreign Policy
#523 0.000263 The Dispatch
#983 0.000181 Wired
#1055 0.000003 The Information
#1238 0.000099 New Yorker
#1338 0.000100 The Atlantic
#1474 0.000002 Newsmax
#1481 0.000002 OANN
#1589 0.000003 Stat News
#1927 0.000069 Bloomberg Opinion
#1971 0.000003 The Verge
#2140 0.000039 The New York Post
#3146 0.000003 CNBC
#3202 0.000033 Ars Technica
#3306 0.000031 The Intercept
#3311 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3687 0.000004 Reuters
#3899 0.000004 Techcrunch
#4431 0.000003 Financial Times
#5135 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5498 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5719 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5946 0.000010 Recode
#6064 0.000006 Washington Post
#6635 0.000003 VICE
#6862 0.000014 The New York Times
#8831 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#293 0.000535 Niskanen Center
#359 0.000322 Urban Institute
#370 0.000328 Council on Foreign Relations
#711 0.000229 Mercatus Center
#842 0.000177 American Enterprise Institute
#842 0.000177 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1098 0.000112 Hoover Institution
#1107 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1167 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1188 0.000121 Brookings
#1244 0.000107 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1469 0.000106 Center for American Progress
#1598 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1801 0.000020 Berggruen Institute
#1925 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2061 0.000003 Cato Institute
#3104 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4366 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#4765 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5967 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7035 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7814 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Science

#386 0.000369 EconTwitter
#1238 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1593 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1634 0.000061 Biotech
#2840 0.000055 Epidemiology Journalism
#3416 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4053 0.000028 ClimateTwitter

system

#1147 0.000144 Think Tanks
#5105 0.000039 Baseline
#8274 0.000068 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#7424 0.000015 Founders

Crypto

#677 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#817 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#866 0.000003 Polkadot
#1806 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2801 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2923 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2967 0.000002 Cosmos
#3560 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3701 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4850 0.000002 Ethereum
#5283 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5874 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7888 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8337 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#663 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#737 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1188 0.000003 Accel
#1595 0.000003 Sequioa
#2114 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2236 0.000002 Bessemer
#2687 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2767 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2899 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3290 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3636 0.000002 Homebrew
#4428 0.000002 Village Global
#4631 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5839 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#808 0.000003 Rust
#1643 0.000002 Zig

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