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?

Dara Lind

Dara Lind

@DLind

Immigration @propublica. Podcasting #TheWeeds. Compelled to precision. If you know things I ought to know, DM me “Signal” and I’ll send my # and delete the DM.

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#185 0.000770 Social Epistemology
#364 0.000300 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#527 0.000222 Rationality
#1066 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1114 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1152 0.000115 RadicalxChange
#1154 0.000132 Moderate Conservatism
#1228 0.000116 Black Lives Matter
#1231 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1259 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1298 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1350 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1361 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1386 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1531 0.000068 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1610 0.000002 350.org
#1669 0.000050 Harper's Open Letter
#1795 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2549 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2848 0.000035 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3016 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3095 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3366 0.000025 Persuasion Community
#3850 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3923 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4276 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4492 0.000003 Anarachists
#4703 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5408 0.000001 EFF
#7975 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8044 0.000006 Ecomodernists
#8098 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#214 0.000727 Niskanen Center
#388 0.000337 Brookings
#1205 0.000016 Cato Institute
#1251 0.000123 Center for American Progress
#1534 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1588 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1781 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2016 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2542 0.000048 Council on Foreign Relations
#2566 0.000057 American Enterprise Institute
#2566 0.000057 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2809 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3495 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4371 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#4437 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5135 0.000012 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5269 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6268 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7750 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8697 0.000005 Mercatus Center
#9652 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute
#9664 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#214 0.000727 Foreign Policy
#225 0.000472 The Atlantic
#315 0.000524 BuzzFeed
#346 0.000204 Reuters
#669 0.000209 The Dispatch
#702 0.000177 Ars Technica
#802 0.000185 The Intercept
#816 0.000156 VICE
#1118 0.000110 New Yorker
#1183 0.000123 The Los Angeles Times
#1429 0.000107 Wired
#1467 0.000002 The Information
#1506 0.000040 The Daily Beast
#1616 0.000105 The New York Times
#1876 0.000001 OANN
#1877 0.000001 Newsmax
#1892 0.000039 Washington Post
#1925 0.000082 Wall Street Journal
#2003 0.000002 Stat News
#2355 0.000002 The Verge
#2539 0.000050 Recode
#2950 0.000002 The Economist
#2977 0.000023 The New York Post
#3572 0.000002 CNBC
#3883 0.000004 Techcrunch
#4853 0.000002 Financial Times
#5839 0.000001 Palladium Magazine

Science

#630 0.000252 Epidemiology Journalism
#1656 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2051 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3834 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5801 0.000011 Biotech

Venture Capital

#1096 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1163 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1210 0.000167 Homebrew
#1601 0.000002 Accel
#2003 0.000002 Sequioa
#2506 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2608 0.000001 Bessemer
#3037 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3150 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3251 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3642 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4801 0.000001 Village Global
#4956 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6130 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

system

#2067 0.000140 Baseline
#2590 0.000053 Think Tanks
#8262 0.000069 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#1112 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1239 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1298 0.000002 Polkadot
#2188 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3176 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3272 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3316 0.000001 Cosmos
#4088 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4137 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5465 0.000001 Ethereum
#5814 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6457 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#7546 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure
#8387 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#1239 0.000002 Rust
#2039 0.000001 Zig

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