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?

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian Riedl 🧀

@Brian_Riedl

manhattan-institute.org/expert/brian-r…

Sr. Fellow @ManhattanInst. Sen. Portman chief economist (2011-17), Fellow @Heritage (2001-11), Past budget/spending architect for 4 prez campaigns. Tweets mine.

12592 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#32 0.005384 Heritage Foundation
#192 0.000612 American Enterprise Institute
#192 0.000612 National Bureau of Economic Research
#339 0.000367 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#396 0.000396 Mercatus Center
#481 0.000107 Eurasia Group
#591 0.000135 Cato Institute
#687 0.000198 Hoover Institution
#1197 0.000112 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2077 0.000035 Niskanen Center
#2948 0.000013 Hudson Institute
#3130 0.000008 Adam Smith Institute
#3237 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3291 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3480 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3680 0.000034 Center for American Progress
#5111 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5425 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6263 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6757 0.000016 Brookings
#7316 0.000001 Earth Institute

Journalism

#78 0.001673 The Dispatch
#604 0.000161 The New York Post
#1986 0.000068 Bloomberg Opinion
#2077 0.000035 Foreign Policy
#3163 0.000001 The Information
#3678 0.000001 Stat News
#3943 0.000001 OANN
#3962 0.000001 Newsmax
#3998 0.000001 The Verge
#4609 0.000001 The Economist
#5208 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5212 0.000001 CNBC
#5793 0.000002 Reuters
#6014 0.000001 Wired
#6401 0.000001 The Intercept
#6469 0.000001 Financial Times
#7011 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7537 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7620 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7636 0.000015 The Atlantic
#8489 0.000001 VICE

system

#126 0.000872 Think Tanks
#675 0.000179 Baseline
#797 0.000108 Reality-Based Community

Culture and Political Economy

#196 0.000766 Claremont Institute
#278 0.000571 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#337 0.000423 Moderate Conservatism
#931 0.000142 Works in Progress
#1019 0.000152 Progress Studies
#1131 0.000107 The Long Now Foundation
#1403 0.000092 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2146 0.000046 Rationality
#2733 0.000035 Persuasion Community
#2810 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2857 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2960 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2994 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3033 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3064 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3112 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3340 0.000001 350.org
#3518 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4455 0.000003 Anarachists
#4482 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4982 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5390 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5548 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5605 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5722 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5899 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6547 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6563 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7201 0.000001 EFF
#9246 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Science

#3373 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3529 0.000024 Biotech
#3782 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#3860 0.000021 EconTwitter
#5437 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7191 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Venture Capital

#1308 0.000020 Y Combinator
#2831 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2875 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3307 0.000001 Accel
#3683 0.000001 Sequioa
#4633 0.000001 Bessemer
#4953 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5164 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5170 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5537 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5724 0.000001 Homebrew
#6610 0.000001 Village Global
#6878 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7702 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#9919 0.000005 A16Z

Crypto

#2855 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2954 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3024 0.000001 Polkadot
#4224 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5156 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5179 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5219 0.000001 Cosmos
#6144 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6384 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8192 0.000001 Ethereum
#8232 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8819 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#2963 0.000001 Rust
#4106 0.000001 Zig

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