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?

Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen

@KBAndersen

kurtandersen.com

Author NYT bestsellers EVIL GENIUSES, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century, previously host Studio 360, editor New York, cofounder Spy

83528 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#70 0.002450 Atlantic Council
#897 0.000139 Council on Foreign Relations
#2474 0.000058 Center for American Progress
#2611 0.000021 Eurasia Group
#2653 0.000009 Berggruen Institute
#2878 0.000045 Mercatus Center
#3075 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3122 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3280 0.000040 Brookings
#3314 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3537 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3972 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4287 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4888 0.000024 American Enterprise Institute
#4888 0.000024 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6475 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6769 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7258 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9310 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9441 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#69 0.001375 Recode
#293 0.000624 Wired
#380 0.000318 The Atlantic
#580 0.000294 The Los Angeles Times
#597 0.000102 Reuters
#941 0.000140 Bloomberg Opinion
#1050 0.000097 The New York Post
#1071 0.000114 New Yorker
#1606 0.000106 The New York Times
#2997 0.000001 The Information
#3058 0.000001 OANN
#3065 0.000001 Newsmax
#3513 0.000001 Stat News
#3835 0.000001 The Verge
#4093 0.000022 The Dispatch
#4445 0.000001 The Economist
#5051 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5052 0.000001 CNBC
#5676 0.000001 The Intercept
#5890 0.000006 VICE
#6313 0.000001 Financial Times
#6769 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6781 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6860 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7452 0.000006 Wall Street Journal
#7500 0.000002 Techcrunch

Venture Capital

#455 0.000436 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1246 0.000152 My Climate Journey
#1648 0.000082 Benchmark Capital
#2662 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2707 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2777 0.000024 Homebrew
#3140 0.000001 Accel
#3240 0.000036 A16Z
#3516 0.000001 Sequioa
#3748 0.000001 Bessemer
#3981 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4293 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5809 0.000001 Village Global
#6031 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6989 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Informal Community

#401 0.000265 Founders

Culture and Political Economy

#974 0.000124 Ecomodernists
#1022 0.000078 Harper's Open Letter
#1496 0.000075 Environmental Journalists
#1610 0.000070 The Long Now Foundation
#2378 0.000039 Social Epistemology
#2402 0.000054 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2640 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2687 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2731 0.000037 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2793 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2824 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2864 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2895 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2896 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2943 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2987 0.000037 Progress Studies
#3172 0.000001 350.org
#3177 0.000028 Moderate Conservatism
#3350 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3491 0.000023 Persuasion Community
#4148 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4148 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4745 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4901 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5044 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5297 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5727 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5756 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6398 0.000001 EFF
#7461 0.000001 Anarachists
#8500 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9225 0.000001 Rationality
#9466 0.000001 Degrowth

Science

#1873 0.000093 Epidemiology Journalism
#3205 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3615 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5279 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9236 0.000001 Biotech

system

#1829 0.000079 Think Tanks
#4682 0.000052 Baseline
#8957 0.000033 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#2685 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2760 0.000035 IDEO Founder Collective
#2787 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2856 0.000001 Polkadot
#3334 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4290 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4338 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4381 0.000001 Cosmos
#5278 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5431 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7119 0.000001 Ethereum
#7272 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7896 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#2796 0.000001 Rust
#3212 0.000001 Zig

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