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?

Caleb Watney

Caleb Watney

@calebwatney

agglomerations.tech

director of innovation policy @ppi // the US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it

10002 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#25 0.004257 Works in Progress
#66 0.001869 Progress Studies
#117 0.000933 The Long Now Foundation
#508 0.000283 RadicalxChange
#699 0.000232 Social Epistemology
#886 0.000132 Rationality
#999 0.000089 Effective Altruism
#1062 0.000120 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1089 0.000120 Bismark Analysis
#1381 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1428 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1544 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1571 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1612 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1655 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1667 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1696 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1920 0.000002 350.org
#2107 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2923 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3305 0.000006 Anarachists
#3496 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4208 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4308 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4800 0.000013 Moderate Conservatism
#5087 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5745 0.000001 EFF
#5756 0.000009 Harper's Open Letter
#7884 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8590 0.000001 Degrowth
#8804 0.000004 Ecomodernists
#9807 0.000004 Persuasion Community

Journalism

#73 0.001718 Palladium Magazine
#105 0.000853 Ars Technica
#268 0.000603 Foreign Policy
#926 0.000142 Bloomberg Opinion
#1773 0.000002 The Information
#1915 0.000068 The Dispatch
#2096 0.000063 The Atlantic
#2290 0.000001 OANN
#2292 0.000001 Newsmax
#2294 0.000057 Recode
#2307 0.000002 Stat News
#2645 0.000002 The Verge
#3252 0.000002 The Economist
#3410 0.000016 Washington Post
#3520 0.000011 Financial Times
#3820 0.000003 Reuters
#3849 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3861 0.000002 CNBC
#3949 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4794 0.000002 Wired
#5081 0.000001 The Intercept
#5769 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6380 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7269 0.000002 VICE
#9426 0.000003 The New York Post
#9614 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#103 0.001137 Mercatus Center
#268 0.000603 Niskanen Center
#432 0.000250 Cato Institute
#760 0.000154 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#797 0.000112 Adam Smith Institute
#1269 0.000120 American Enterprise Institute
#1269 0.000120 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1339 0.000101 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1839 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1895 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2088 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2319 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#3325 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3789 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4204 0.000007 Hudson Institute
#4791 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5746 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6413 0.000017 Brookings
#7397 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9617 0.000001 Hoover Institution

system

#773 0.000344 Think Tanks
#4359 0.000069 Baseline
#8389 0.000054 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#552 0.000329 Public Goods Funding
#786 0.000179 Ethereum
#999 0.000070 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1427 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1545 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1607 0.000002 Polkadot
#2046 0.000055 Crypto VC
#2320 0.000033 Crypto Infrastructure
#3566 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3646 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3690 0.000001 Cosmos
#4629 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5329 0.000010 IDEO Founder Collective
#6404 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7015 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Venture Capital

#515 0.000252 Khosla Ventures
#1410 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1469 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1907 0.000002 Accel
#2302 0.000002 Sequioa
#2438 0.000028 Benchmark Capital
#2440 0.000047 Initialized Capital
#2797 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3012 0.000001 Bessemer
#3403 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3549 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3624 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4254 0.000025 A16Z
#4283 0.000001 Homebrew
#5168 0.000001 Village Global

Science

#807 0.000163 EconTwitter
#1967 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2363 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2872 0.000053 Epidemiology Journalism
#4133 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8671 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1549 0.000002 Rust
#2455 0.000001 Zig

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