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?

Dan Baer

Dan Baer

@danbbaer

One-time Carly Rae backup singer. Now: Senior Fellow @carnegieendow. Optimist, idealist, former US ambassador, Coloradan. #BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸he/him

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#296 0.000384 Council on Foreign Relations
#410 0.000429 Atlantic Council
#577 0.000236 Brookings
#1214 0.000128 Center for American Progress
#1629 0.000038 Hudson Institute
#1743 0.000088 American Enterprise Institute
#1743 0.000088 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3396 0.000028 Hoover Institution
#3443 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3539 0.000032 Mercatus Center
#3971 0.000008 Eurasia Group
#5401 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5458 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5645 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5856 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6106 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6233 0.000001 Cato Institute
#8290 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#9347 0.000000 Earth Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#615 0.000199 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#883 0.000197 Heterodox Academy
#930 0.000135 Persuasion Community
#1287 0.000064 Harper's Open Letter
#1923 0.000060 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2014 0.000059 Social Epistemology
#2551 0.000042 Moderate Conservatism
#2718 0.000043 Progress Studies
#3479 0.000030 Ecomodernists
#4397 0.000017 EFF
#5008 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5054 0.000001 Fair Vote
#5148 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5189 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5224 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#5228 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5238 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5296 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5525 0.000001 350.org
#5696 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6589 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#7065 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#7725 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7747 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#8000 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8105 0.000000 Works in Progress
#8585 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#8615 0.000000 Black Lives Matter

Journalism

#1067 0.000126 The Atlantic
#1068 0.000153 Financial Times
#1213 0.000115 The Dispatch
#1902 0.000065 New Yorker
#3279 0.000031 The Intercept
#5203 0.000023 Bloomberg Opinion
#5326 0.000001 The Information
#5820 0.000001 Stat News
#6104 0.000001 The Verge
#6106 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6145 0.000000 OANN
#6167 0.000000 Newsmax
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#7295 0.000001 CNBC
#7963 0.000001 Wired
#8263 0.000002 Recode
#8917 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9430 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9544 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

system

#1592 0.000092 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#2035 0.000078 Homebrew
#5026 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5059 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5462 0.000001 Accel
#5830 0.000001 Sequioa
#6252 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6788 0.000000 Bessemer
#7045 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#7258 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#7331 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7610 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#8587 0.000000 Village Global
#8954 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#9540 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#5051 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5142 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#5216 0.000001 Polkadot
#6406 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#7252 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#7285 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#7299 0.000000 Cosmos
#8242 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#8609 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Science

#5549 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5956 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7504 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9096 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#5138 0.000001 Rust
#6305 0.000000 Zig

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