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?

David Fisman

David Fisman

@DFisman

dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profil…

Professor, interested in plagues, pestilences and politics. I am, literally, a Fish who needs a bicycle.

73027 followers

Lens Rankings

Science

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#89 0.001929 Epidimiology Twitter
#869 0.000140 Biotech
#1018 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1362 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1806 0.000096 ClimateTwitter
#5668 0.000011 EconTwitter

Journalism

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#1274 0.000002 Newsmax
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#1690 0.000079 The Atlantic
#1769 0.000003 The Verge
#2333 0.000003 The Economist
#2942 0.000003 CNBC
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#4220 0.000003 Financial Times
#4375 0.000002 The Intercept
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#5551 0.000003 Foreign Policy
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#8364 0.000002 Recode
#8387 0.000002 The Dispatch
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#8661 0.000012 Bloomberg Opinion
#9667 0.000008 New Yorker

Culture and Political Economy

#402 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#451 0.000003 Fair Vote
#583 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#600 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
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#704 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#722 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#749 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#965 0.000003 350.org
#1132 0.000140 Heterodox Academy
#1153 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1540 0.000086 EFF
#2022 0.000070 Progress Studies
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#2365 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2463 0.000047 Ecomodernists
#2576 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3065 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3370 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3428 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3563 0.000010 Effective Altruism
#3686 0.000032 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3836 0.000016 Degrowth
#4233 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4998 0.000011 Harper's Open Letter
#5091 0.000002 Anarachists
#6174 0.000008 Persuasion Community
#6762 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#6822 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7317 0.000002 Rationality
#9362 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Think Tanks

#708 0.000173 Council on Foreign Relations
#888 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#892 0.000063 Eurasia Group
#948 0.000003 Belfer Center
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#1359 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1491 0.000037 Adam Smith Institute
#1839 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2015 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2292 0.000062 Mercatus Center
#2889 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3843 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4424 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5551 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5590 0.000017 Center for American Progress
#5814 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5928 0.000007 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6587 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8815 0.000002 Hoover Institution

system

#6912 0.000021 Baseline
#8370 0.000055 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#3909 0.000032 Founders

Crypto

#449 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#601 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#645 0.000003 Polkadot
#1623 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2625 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2760 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2806 0.000002 Cosmos
#3224 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3463 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4510 0.000002 Ethereum
#4924 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5492 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7590 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#7954 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#439 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#522 0.000003 Founders Fund
#970 0.000003 Accel
#1391 0.000003 Sequioa
#1919 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2057 0.000002 Bessemer
#2525 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2574 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2725 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3141 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3504 0.000002 Homebrew
#4221 0.000002 Village Global
#4488 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5638 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#583 0.000003 Rust
#1441 0.000002 Zig

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