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?

Alison Herman

Alison Herman

Writer @ringer, alison dot herman at the ringer dot com. Screen queen, discourse maven, perennial logger-on.

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#139	0.001116	Niskanen Center
#3081	0.000005	Berggruen Institute
#6072	0.000012	Mercatus Center
#7713	0.000012	American Enterprise Institute
#7713	0.000012	National Bureau of Economic Research
#9244	0.000000	Asia Society Policy Institute

Journalism

#139	0.001116	Foreign Policy
#399	0.000179	Stat News
#1213	0.000094	BuzzFeed
#2304	0.000057	The Atlantic
#4672	0.000022	New Yorker
#7250	0.000000	OANN
#7271	0.000000	Newsmax
#8385	0.000001	Techcrunch
#9335	0.000000	The Intercept
#9757	0.000001	The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#819	0.000204	Environmental Journalists
#2684	0.000047	Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2866	0.000024	Harper's Open Letter
#8120	0.000000	Bismark Analysis
#8548	0.000000	Social Epistemology
#8803	0.000000	RadicalxChange
#8856	0.000000	Heterodox Academy
#8972	0.000000	Climate Solutions
#9080	0.000000	Populist Libertarians
#9146	0.000000	Works in Progress
#9632	0.000000	Effective Altruism
#9650	0.000000	Black Lives Matter
#9868	0.000001	Rationality

Crypto

#7497	0.000000	Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#8301	0.000000	Crypto Journalists
#8357	0.000000	Crypto Angels
#8365	0.000000	Cosmos
#9298	0.000000	Public Goods Funding
#9721	0.000000	Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Software Engineering

#7405

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Venture Capital

#7880	0.000000	Bessemer
#8106	0.000000	My Climate Journey
#8329	0.000000	Sutter Hill Ventures
#8428	0.000000	Index Ventures
#8662	0.000000	Benchmark Capital
#8751	0.000000	Homebrew
#9610	0.000000	Village Global
#9982	0.000000	Initialized Capital

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