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?

Ryan Mac🙃

Ryan Mac🙃

@RMac18

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senior tech reporter @BuzzFeedNews. ryan.mac@buzzfeed.com & rmac18@protonmail.com. DMs open. On Signal--ask for my number

58588 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#11 0.009115 BuzzFeed
#13 0.012196 The Information
#20 0.003770 Recode
#35 0.003296 Techcrunch
#49 0.002489 Wired
#84 0.000946 Ars Technica
#157 0.001284 The Verge
#175 0.000879 Foreign Policy
#206 0.000695 The Daily Beast
#250 0.000646 The New York Times
#406 0.000371 The Intercept
#434 0.000343 VICE
#476 0.000238 CNBC
#632 0.000270 Wall Street Journal
#711 0.000140 The New York Post
#750 0.000168 The Atlantic
#779 0.000164 Bloomberg Opinion
#880 0.000051 Reuters
#933 0.000004 Newsmax
#951 0.000004 OANN
#1096 0.000112 New Yorker
#1167 0.000005 Stat News
#1407 0.000059 Washington Post
#1626 0.000074 Financial Times
#2099 0.000005 The Economist
#3415 0.000021 The Los Angeles Times
#4417 0.000018 The Dispatch
#4486 0.000004 Palladium Magazine

Venture Capital

#67 0.001856 Founders Fund
#83 0.001360 Initialized Capital
#177 0.000842 Homebrew
#229 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#298 0.000461 Khosla Ventures
#454 0.000341 Benchmark Capital
#593 0.000044 Accel
#670 0.000090 Bessemer
#725 0.000117 Index Ventures
#814 0.000227 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1179 0.000005 Sequioa
#1372 0.000102 A16Z
#1566 0.000080 Village Global
#1737 0.000005 Y Combinator
#2258 0.000004 My Climate Journey

Think Tanks

#175 0.000879 Niskanen Center
#326 0.000148 Eurasia Group
#686 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#744 0.000005 Belfer Center
#886 0.000098 Adam Smith Institute
#952 0.000005 Urban Institute
#960 0.000149 Brookings
#1150 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1497 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1577 0.000071 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1621 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1675 0.000104 Earth Institute
#1860 0.000038 Atlantic Council
#3347 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#3651 0.000035 Center for American Progress
#4115 0.000028 Council on Foreign Relations
#5047 0.000014 Hoover Institution
#5362 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5846 0.000013 Mercatus Center
#6526 0.000015 American Enterprise Institute
#6526 0.000015 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6910 0.000004 Peterson Institute for International Economics

system

#6 0.000704 Baseline
#6 0.000426 Reality-Based Community
#1992 0.000070 Think Tanks

Crypto

#224 0.000661 Crypto Journalists
#236 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#401 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#434 0.000005 Polkadot
#473 0.000250 Crypto Infrastructure
#857 0.000162 Crypto VC
#1319 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1863 0.000025 Cosmos
#2340 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2420 0.000011 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2582 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2900 0.000009 Ethereum
#3630 0.000023 IDEO Founder Collective
#3827 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#3926 0.000004 Decentralized Web

Culture and Political Economy

#189 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#239 0.000005 Fair Vote
#245 0.000500 EFF
#373 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#389 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#426 0.000005 Existential Risks
#499 0.000237 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#499 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#520 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#540 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#758 0.000005 350.org
#948 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#983 0.000164 Environmental Journalists
#1427 0.000101 Social Epistemology
#1510 0.000075 The Long Now Foundation
#1564 0.000094 Progress Studies
#1943 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#1956 0.000069 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2240 0.000004 Bismark Analysis
#2706 0.000032 Rationality
#2720 0.000026 Works in Progress
#2776 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#2862 0.000024 Harper's Open Letter
#2945 0.000004 Populist Libertarians
#3102 0.000004 Heterodox Academy
#3259 0.000026 Persuasion Community
#3964 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#3967 0.000004 Effective Altruism
#4005 0.000004 Anarachists
#4148 0.000024 Ecomodernists
#4343 0.000012 Degrowth
#6289 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#8992 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Informal Community

#2388 0.000056 Founders

Science

#816 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1132 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#2848 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#3551 0.000018 Epidemiology Journalism
#3707 0.000023 Biotech
#7988 0.000005 EconTwitter
#8745 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#371 0.000005 Rust
#1106 0.000004 Zig

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