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?

Derek Thompson

Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

amazon.com/Hit-Makers-Sci…

Writer at @TheAtlantic. Host of podcast CRAZY/GENIUS. Author of book HIT MAKERS. Talker on NPR's @hereandnow and @CBSNews. derek[at]theatlantic[dot]com

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#13 0.005441 The Atlantic
#36 0.002452 Recode
#39 0.002962 Foreign Policy
#81 0.000950 Ars Technica
#159 0.001075 Financial Times
#206 0.000478 Bloomberg Opinion
#434 0.000258 Palladium Magazine
#720 0.000181 VICE
#800 0.000229 The New York Times
#837 0.000003 The Information
#908 0.000107 Washington Post
#1189 0.000002 Newsmax
#1199 0.000002 OANN
#1333 0.000093 New Yorker
#1381 0.000003 Stat News
#1424 0.000097 The Dispatch
#1437 0.000117 Wall Street Journal
#1753 0.000079 The Intercept
#1766 0.000003 The Verge
#2144 0.000009 Techcrunch
#2183 0.000008 Reuters
#2330 0.000003 The Economist
#2488 0.000041 The Los Angeles Times
#2940 0.000003 CNBC
#2988 0.000022 The New York Post
#3107 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3876 0.000013 BuzzFeed
#4023 0.000003 Wired

Think Tanks

#39 0.002962 Niskanen Center
#105 0.001123 Mercatus Center
#574 0.000233 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#628 0.000234 Center for American Progress
#688 0.000180 Council on Foreign Relations
#756 0.000244 Earth Institute
#886 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#945 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1068 0.000135 Brookings
#1073 0.000141 American Enterprise Institute
#1073 0.000141 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1144 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1356 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1815 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1836 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2083 0.000028 Eurasia Group
#2147 0.000014 Adam Smith Institute
#2887 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3750 0.000023 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#3769 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#5211 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#7195 0.000005 Hoover Institution

Science

#115 0.001198 Epidemiology Journalism
#422 0.000407 Epidimiology Twitter
#630 0.000215 EconTwitter
#1015 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1359 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#4281 0.000018 Biotech
#9797 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Culture and Political Economy

#137 0.000988 Progress Studies
#172 0.000606 The Long Now Foundation
#190 0.000656 Works in Progress
#208 0.000450 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#251 0.000429 Rationality
#375 0.000416 Social Epistemology
#393 0.000309 Ecomodernists
#399 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#404 0.000237 Effective Altruism
#419 0.000368 Bismark Analysis
#448 0.000003 Fair Vote
#533 0.000346 Heterodox Academy
#580 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#597 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#635 0.000003 Existential Risks
#701 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#710 0.000105 Harper's Open Letter
#719 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#746 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#962 0.000003 350.org
#1150 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1454 0.000081 Environmental Journalists
#1767 0.000055 RadicalxChange
#2223 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2300 0.000043 Persuasion Community
#2329 0.000046 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2725 0.000037 Moderate Conservatism
#3275 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4165 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4320 0.000014 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4466 0.000012 Degrowth
#4859 0.000002 EFF
#4895 0.000002 Anarachists

Crypto

#222 0.000827 Public Goods Funding
#330 0.000453 Ethereum
#446 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#598 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#642 0.000003 Polkadot
#996 0.000133 Crypto VC
#1167 0.000068 Crypto Investing
#1547 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2403 0.000043 IDEO Founder Collective
#2555 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2693 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2737 0.000002 Cosmos
#3360 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3859 0.000015 Crypto Infrastructure
#4064 0.000003 Decentralized Web

Venture Capital

#343 0.000392 Khosla Ventures
#361 0.000395 Initialized Capital
#436 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#454 0.000343 Village Global
#520 0.000003 Founders Fund
#537 0.000276 A16Z
#967 0.000003 Accel
#1388 0.000003 Sequioa
#1916 0.000003 Y Combinator
#1983 0.000002 Bessemer
#2459 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2485 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2659 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3077 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3448 0.000002 Homebrew

system

#136 0.000292 Baseline
#220 0.000164 Reality-Based Community
#1271 0.000123 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#2676 0.000049 Founders

Software Engineering

#580 0.000003 Rust
#1355 0.000002 Zig

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