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?

Matthew Ball

Matthew Ball

@ballmatthew

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#78 0.001436 Benchmark Capital
#224 0.000591 A16Z
#281 0.000494 Khosla Ventures
#299 0.000462 Initialized Capital
#680 0.000087 Bessemer
#1353 0.000117 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1599 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1656 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1695 0.000007 Index Ventures
#2049 0.000067 My Climate Journey
#2093 0.000002 Accel
#2374 0.000029 Village Global
#2484 0.000002 Sequioa
#2970 0.000002 Y Combinator
#4182 0.000001 Homebrew

Journalism

#121 0.001410 The Information
#171 0.000699 Recode
#543 0.000218 Bloomberg Opinion
#772 0.000178 The Economist
#1162 0.000121 Foreign Policy
#1532 0.000019 Techcrunch
#1572 0.000085 The Atlantic
#2162 0.000001 OANN
#2165 0.000001 Newsmax
#2487 0.000002 Stat News
#2678 0.000040 Ars Technica
#2824 0.000002 The Verge
#4037 0.000002 CNBC
#4112 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4817 0.000018 Wall Street Journal
#4952 0.000002 Wired
#4985 0.000001 The Intercept
#5326 0.000002 Financial Times
#5348 0.000002 Reuters
#5922 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6072 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6551 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7427 0.000002 VICE
#8055 0.000004 The New York Post
#8242 0.000010 New Yorker
#9651 0.000001 The Dispatch

Crypto

#244 0.000605 Crypto VC
#889 0.000138 IDEO Founder Collective
#1618 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1731 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1796 0.000002 Polkadot
#2467 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3447 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3515 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#3532 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3572 0.000001 Cosmos
#3940 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#4429 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4491 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5953 0.000001 Ethereum
#9285 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Culture and Political Economy

#622 0.000254 Progress Studies
#845 0.000151 The Long Now Foundation
#1428 0.000101 Social Epistemology
#1572 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1619 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1732 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1760 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1802 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1844 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1854 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1885 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2108 0.000002 350.org
#2296 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2336 0.000040 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2807 0.000030 Rationality
#2808 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3298 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3342 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3857 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4100 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4154 0.000028 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4187 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4518 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4945 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4977 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5644 0.000001 EFF
#6494 0.000001 Anarachists
#7553 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7889 0.000006 Ecomodernists
#8430 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#1162 0.000121 Niskanen Center
#1271 0.000126 Mercatus Center
#2027 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2081 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2275 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2506 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2950 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3174 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3976 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4687 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5574 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#5592 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6498 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7287 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8142 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8489 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9998 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Science

#1992 0.000087 Epidemiology Journalism
#2154 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2549 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4314 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8592 0.000001 Biotech

Informal Community

#3389 0.000037 Founders

system

#6612 0.000023 Baseline

Software Engineering

#1738 0.000002 Rust
#2326 0.000001 Zig

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