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 Beutler

Brian Beutler

@brianbeutler

crooked.com/bigtent

@crookedmedia Editor in Chief. Politics. Writing. Intermittent podcasting. Gun-assault survivor. bbeutler@protonmail.com

179997 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#63 0.002078 Niskanen Center
#128 0.000841 Center for American Progress
#336 0.000380 Brookings
#1284 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1302 0.000037 Berggruen Institute
#1325 0.000117 American Enterprise Institute
#1325 0.000117 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1341 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1516 0.000118 Earth Institute
#1537 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1576 0.000071 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1772 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#1825 0.000066 Council on Foreign Relations
#2195 0.000058 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2235 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2376 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3264 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#5101 0.000014 Hoover Institution
#5188 0.000016 Mercatus Center
#5629 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#7161 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8737 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#63 0.002078 Foreign Policy
#332 0.000460 The Intercept
#456 0.000261 New Yorker
#509 0.000236 Bloomberg Opinion
#562 0.000245 Recode
#961 0.000144 The Dispatch
#1007 0.000133 The Atlantic
#1224 0.000002 The Information
#1504 0.000040 The Daily Beast
#1522 0.000079 VICE
#1540 0.000002 Newsmax
#1547 0.000002 OANN
#1769 0.000002 Stat News
#2078 0.000008 Reuters
#2101 0.000053 Ars Technica
#2128 0.000002 The Verge
#2714 0.000002 The Economist
#3322 0.000002 CNBC
#4339 0.000002 Wired
#4476 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4591 0.000002 Financial Times
#5287 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5564 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5897 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#8211 0.000010 The New York Times
#9007 0.000002 Washington Post
#9034 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9895 0.000003 The New York Post

Culture and Political Economy

#543 0.000225 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#579 0.000126 Harper's Open Letter
#722 0.000166 Ecomodernists
#811 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#859 0.000002 Fair Vote
#980 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1007 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1044 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1060 0.000084 Effective Altruism
#1100 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1119 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1143 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1267 0.000106 Environmental Journalists
#1363 0.000002 350.org
#1549 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1637 0.000080 Moderate Conservatism
#1672 0.000066 The Long Now Foundation
#1819 0.000061 Works in Progress
#2261 0.000041 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2320 0.000053 Black Lives Matter
#2573 0.000038 Persuasion Community
#2600 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2806 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3296 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3570 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3595 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3620 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3859 0.000020 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#4086 0.000023 EFF
#4558 0.000012 Rationality
#4738 0.000009 Progress Studies
#5564 0.000002 Anarachists
#7654 0.000002 Degrowth

Informal Community

#754 0.000168 Founders

Science

#1220 0.000087 Biotech
#1413 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1771 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3598 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#3930 0.000006 Epidemiology Journalism
#8252 0.000005 EconTwitter

Venture Capital

#843 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#912 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1357 0.000002 Accel
#1757 0.000002 Sequioa
#2266 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2298 0.000002 Bessemer
#2463 0.000046 Initialized Capital
#2585 0.000038 Khosla Ventures
#2745 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2826 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2958 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3349 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3690 0.000002 Homebrew
#4492 0.000002 Village Global

system

#5813 0.000029 Baseline
#7755 0.000017 Think Tanks

Crypto

#857 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#993 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1047 0.000002 Polkadot
#1867 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2862 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2973 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3026 0.000002 Cosmos
#3314 0.000012 Crypto Investing
#3656 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3769 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4949 0.000002 Ethereum
#5370 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#7975 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8420 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#987 0.000002 Rust
#1709 0.000002 Zig

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