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?

Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#214 0.000590 Initialized Capital
#1159 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1225 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1663 0.000002 Accel
#2064 0.000002 Sequioa
#2404 0.000028 Village Global
#2566 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3073 0.000001 Bessemer
#3462 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3588 0.000015 Khosla Ventures
#3612 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3683 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4071 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4338 0.000001 Homebrew
#4594 0.000023 A16Z

Journalism

#345 0.000287 The New York Post
#384 0.000481 The Verge
#907 0.000191 Wired
#1529 0.000002 The Information
#1728 0.000072 New Yorker
#1838 0.000012 Techcrunch
#2062 0.000002 Stat News
#2349 0.000001 OANN
#2354 0.000001 Newsmax
#2678 0.000014 Foreign Policy
#3009 0.000002 The Economist
#3079 0.000041 The Atlantic
#3334 0.000004 Reuters
#3631 0.000002 CNBC
#3733 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4373 0.000004 Palladium Magazine
#4531 0.000020 Recode
#4911 0.000002 Financial Times
#5127 0.000023 Bloomberg Opinion
#5130 0.000001 The Intercept
#5566 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6157 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7050 0.000002 VICE
#9378 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9709 0.000002 Washington Post
#9851 0.000001 The Dispatch

Think Tanks

#429 0.000389 Earth Institute
#968 0.000168 Mercatus Center
#1450 0.000091 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1594 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1649 0.000091 Brookings
#1650 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1845 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2078 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2143 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2205 0.000065 Center for American Progress
#2526 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2678 0.000014 Niskanen Center
#3557 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4845 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5454 0.000020 Council on Foreign Relations
#6658 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7302 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8409 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Science

#846 0.000157 EconTwitter
#1328 0.000080 Epidimiology Twitter
#1719 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2115 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2628 0.000059 ClimateTwitter
#3133 0.000028 Biotech
#3141 0.000045 Epidemiology Journalism

Culture and Political Economy

#575 0.000128 Harper's Open Letter
#810 0.000151 EFF
#957 0.000121 Rationality
#1044 0.000115 Ecomodernists
#1075 0.000151 Heterodox Academy
#1130 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1156 0.000103 The Long Now Foundation
#1177 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1295 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1323 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1361 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1412 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1425 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1449 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1537 0.000067 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1674 0.000002 350.org
#1858 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1920 0.000062 Social Epistemology
#2352 0.000056 Progress Studies
#2983 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3509 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3570 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3614 0.000033 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4036 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4367 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4677 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5112 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5143 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5416 0.000011 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6476 0.000007 Persuasion Community
#6714 0.000001 Anarachists
#7707 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8645 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#178 0.000074 Polkadot
#1176 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1301 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1469 0.000051 Decentralized Web
#2330 0.000044 IDEO Founder Collective
#2653 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2691 0.000037 Crypto VC
#3622 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3699 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3741 0.000001 Cosmos
#4212 0.000013 Crypto Infrastructure
#4606 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4693 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6199 0.000001 Ethereum
#7098 0.000001 Crypto Investing

system

#8836 0.000036 Reality-Based Community
#9091 0.000014 Baseline

Informal Community

#3635 0.000035 Founders

Software Engineering

#1299 0.000002 Rust
#2517 0.000001 Zig

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