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?

Spencer Ackerman

Spencer Ackerman

@attackerman

“National security” reporter. Please preorder my book, REIGN OF TERROR: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555/r…

168015 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#33 0.005260 The Daily Beast
#82 0.001624 The Intercept
#126 0.001229 Wired
#388 0.000312 The Atlantic
#670 0.000092 Reuters
#801 0.000152 Ars Technica
#879 0.000166 Foreign Policy
#931 0.000130 The Verge
#1219 0.000094 BuzzFeed
#1239 0.000135 Wall Street Journal
#1301 0.000077 The New York Post
#1600 0.000106 The New York Times
#1721 0.000044 Washington Post
#2262 0.000001 The Information
#2395 0.000001 OANN
#2400 0.000001 Newsmax
#2459 0.000050 The Dispatch
#2613 0.000047 Recode
#2781 0.000001 Stat News
#2857 0.000041 New Yorker
#3728 0.000001 The Economist
#4208 0.000030 Bloomberg Opinion
#4327 0.000001 CNBC
#4596 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4890 0.000014 VICE
#5604 0.000001 Financial Times
#6257 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6805 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Culture and Political Economy

#328 0.000516 Environmental Journalists
#590 0.000274 Social Epistemology
#1129 0.000113 EFF
#1143 0.000095 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1429 0.000079 Rationality
#1682 0.000079 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1881 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1928 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2038 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2069 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2106 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2145 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2153 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2188 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2357 0.000032 Harper's Open Letter
#2415 0.000001 350.org
#2598 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#2651 0.000011 Anarachists
#3548 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3631 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4079 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4308 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4412 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4719 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4941 0.000011 Moderate Conservatism
#5146 0.000017 Ecomodernists
#5153 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5184 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5842 0.000008 The Long Now Foundation
#8448 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8689 0.000001 Degrowth
#9512 0.000004 Persuasion Community

Think Tanks

#313 0.000400 Brookings
#879 0.000166 Niskanen Center
#1107 0.000022 Cato Institute
#1754 0.000021 Berggruen Institute
#2179 0.000056 Council on Foreign Relations
#2196 0.000058 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2327 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2381 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2569 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2797 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#2815 0.000050 Center for American Progress
#3459 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3729 0.000025 Hoover Institution
#4256 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#4811 0.000025 American Enterprise Institute
#4811 0.000025 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5849 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6697 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8336 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8471 0.000001 Hudson Institute

system

#1593 0.000146 Baseline
#1881 0.000076 Think Tanks
#4738 0.000076 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#2604 0.000051 Founders

Crypto

#1927 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2036 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2102 0.000001 Polkadot
#2697 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3664 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3742 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3780 0.000001 Cosmos
#4654 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4752 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6265 0.000001 Ethereum
#6535 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7148 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8930 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9586 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1906 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1960 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2392 0.000001 Accel
#2780 0.000001 Sequioa
#3114 0.000001 Bessemer
#3264 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3502 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3654 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3725 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4111 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4373 0.000001 Homebrew
#5257 0.000001 Village Global
#5452 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6503 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Science

#2455 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2857 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4589 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5905 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8744 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2046 0.000001 Rust
#2564 0.000001 Zig

Automatically Detected Communities