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?

Bina Venkataraman

Bina Venkataraman

@binajv

writerbina.com

Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe, @GlobeOpinion. Former @MIT @nytimes @NewAmerica. Author, THE OPTIMIST’s TELESCOPE: bit.ly/optimists-tele…

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

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#5977 0.000015 Center for American Progress
#9432 0.000009 Council on Foreign Relations

Science

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#6929 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

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#9168 0.000012 The Atlantic

Culture and Political Economy

#880 0.000144 The Long Now Foundation
#887 0.000158 Bismark Analysis
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#4437 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4534 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
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#4914 0.000001 350.org
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#8044 0.000000 Effective Altruism
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#8664 0.000000 EFF
#9734 0.000000 Anarachists

system

#765 0.000109 Reality-Based Community
#1075 0.000158 Baseline
#5137 0.000025 Think Tanks

Crypto

#4434 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4526 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4599 0.000001 Polkadot
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#6704 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
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#6753 0.000000 Cosmos
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#7698 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
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#9788 0.000000 Decentralized Web

Venture Capital

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#8068 0.000000 Village Global
#9043 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#4522 0.000001 Rust
#5729 0.000000 Zig

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