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?

James Fallows

James Fallows

@JamesFallows

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Atlantic writer. HBO film of 'Our Towns' now airing. hbo.com/documentaries/…

184096 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#73 0.001421 The Long Now Foundation
#81 0.001091 Ecomodernists
#593 0.000253 Bismark Analysis
#1017 0.000154 Progress Studies
#1509 0.000072 Persuasion Community
#1641 0.000081 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2138 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2185 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2210 0.000046 Social Epistemology
#2294 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2326 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2363 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2399 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2402 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2444 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2672 0.000001 350.org
#2746 0.000025 Harper's Open Letter
#2814 0.000042 Black Lives Matter
#2851 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3173 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3727 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4174 0.000017 Moderate Conservatism
#4264 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4464 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4568 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4652 0.000012 Rationality
#4855 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4885 0.000013 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5293 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5972 0.000001 EFF
#6959 0.000001 Anarachists
#8106 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8866 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#270 0.000413 The Atlantic
#352 0.000397 The Daily Beast
#892 0.000157 The Dispatch
#1021 0.000136 Foreign Policy
#1172 0.000120 Recode
#1380 0.000090 New Yorker
#1729 0.000076 Bloomberg Opinion
#2128 0.000052 Ars Technica
#2374 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2512 0.000001 The Information
#2561 0.000001 OANN
#2565 0.000001 Newsmax
#2707 0.000017 Palladium Magazine
#2843 0.000022 Washington Post
#2882 0.000051 The New York Times
#3025 0.000001 Stat News
#3357 0.000001 The Verge
#3524 0.000004 Reuters
#3969 0.000001 The Economist
#4528 0.000020 Wall Street Journal
#4560 0.000001 CNBC
#5296 0.000001 The Intercept
#5431 0.000001 Wired
#5841 0.000001 Financial Times
#6408 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7023 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7884 0.000001 VICE

Think Tanks

#346 0.000343 Council on Foreign Relations
#518 0.000240 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#547 0.000248 Brookings
#816 0.000100 Asia Society Policy Institute
#906 0.000096 Adam Smith Institute
#1021 0.000136 Niskanen Center
#1036 0.000147 American Enterprise Institute
#1036 0.000147 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1044 0.000134 Atlantic Council
#1307 0.000037 Berggruen Institute
#1626 0.000107 Earth Institute
#2580 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2636 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2823 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3046 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3487 0.000001 Cato Institute
#3834 0.000008 Hudson Institute
#4047 0.000008 Eurasia Group
#6384 0.000006 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8276 0.000006 Mercatus Center
#9402 0.000005 Center for American Progress

Science

#901 0.000186 Epidemiology Journalism
#2075 0.000046 Biotech
#2709 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3122 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#3472 0.000037 ClimateTwitter
#4825 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5427 0.000012 EconTwitter

system

#1441 0.000105 Think Tanks
#4711 0.000051 Baseline
#9060 0.000031 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#1879 0.000087 My Climate Journey
#2162 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2170 0.000050 Khosla Ventures
#2214 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2646 0.000001 Accel
#3031 0.000001 Sequioa
#3037 0.000015 Homebrew
#3270 0.000001 Bessemer
#3506 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3812 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3872 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4250 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5390 0.000001 Village Global
#5597 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#2184 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2290 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2358 0.000001 Polkadot
#2860 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3824 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3890 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3932 0.000001 Cosmos
#4462 0.000002 Ethereum
#4821 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4924 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6738 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7329 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9096 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9790 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#2298 0.000001 Rust
#2726 0.000001 Zig

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