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?

Brian Merchant

Brian Merchant

@bcmerchant

brianmerchant.org

Automate it for the people. Writing 'Blood in the Machine' for @LittleBrown. Wrote 'that iPhone book'. Founder, Terraform @VICE

13487 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#142 0.001423 The Verge
#171 0.000911 VICE
#261 0.000513 The Information
#308 0.000438 Recode
#889 0.000083 CNBC
#1113 0.000105 Ars Technica
#1236 0.000132 Wired
#1550 0.000019 Techcrunch
#1554 0.000037 The Daily Beast
#2179 0.000044 BuzzFeed
#2449 0.000053 The Intercept
#2807 0.000005 Reuters
#2921 0.000040 The Dispatch
#2948 0.000043 The Atlantic
#2985 0.000013 Palladium Magazine
#3214 0.000001 OANN
#3223 0.000001 Newsmax
#3252 0.000001 Stat News
#3451 0.000016 Washington Post
#4044 0.000027 New Yorker
#4189 0.000001 The Economist
#6055 0.000001 Financial Times
#7233 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9986 0.000001 Foreign Policy

Think Tanks

#371 0.000339 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1337 0.000137 Earth Institute
#2809 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2863 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3053 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3276 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3714 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4477 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4708 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5139 0.000023 American Enterprise Institute
#5139 0.000023 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5593 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#9496 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9592 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9593 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9986 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Culture and Political Economy

#340 0.000334 EFF
#997 0.000160 Environmental Journalists
#1659 0.000045 Degrowth
#2373 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2420 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2527 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2559 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2597 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2630 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2633 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2677 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2907 0.000001 350.org
#3085 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4235 0.000014 Harper's Open Letter
#4290 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4381 0.000015 Moderate Conservatism
#4535 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4827 0.000010 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4892 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4905 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5043 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5194 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5433 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5866 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5893 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7615 0.000001 Anarachists
#8383 0.000003 The Long Now Foundation
#9121 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9379 0.000001 Rationality

system

#530 0.000123 Reality-Based Community
#551 0.000188 Baseline

Science

#1905 0.000092 Epidemiology Journalism
#2941 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3352 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5037 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9349 0.000001 Biotech

Informal Community

#2002 0.000070 Founders

Venture Capital

#2199 0.000037 Village Global
#2397 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2445 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2694 0.000041 Initialized Capital
#2879 0.000001 Accel
#3259 0.000001 Sequioa
#3731 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3900 0.000001 Bessemer
#4241 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4440 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4469 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4840 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5056 0.000001 Homebrew
#7104 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#9443 0.000005 A16Z

Crypto

#2419 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2522 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2591 0.000001 Polkadot
#3486 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4439 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4482 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4526 0.000001 Cosmos
#5429 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5605 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7323 0.000001 Ethereum
#7455 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8038 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9699 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#2530 0.000001 Rust
#3367 0.000001 Zig

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