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 Pfeiffer

Dan Pfeiffer

@danpfeiffer

messagebox.substack.com/subscribe?utm_…

Co-host Pod Save America, Author of Message Box, a newsletter about political strategy, Former Obama Senior Advisor, books, and other stuff.

736168 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#69 0.001719 Homebrew
#214 0.000738 My Climate Journey
#383 0.000242 Bessemer
#761 0.000169 Khosla Ventures
#762 0.000084 Sequioa
#1242 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1305 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1743 0.000002 Accel
#2036 0.000051 Benchmark Capital
#2643 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3324 0.000025 Initialized Capital
#3437 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3517 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4428 0.000024 A16Z
#5070 0.000001 Village Global

Think Tanks

#176 0.000686 Center for American Progress
#300 0.000413 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#462 0.000110 Eurasia Group
#1393 0.000080 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1456 0.000110 Mercatus Center
#1571 0.000097 Brookings
#1603 0.000080 Niskanen Center
#1658 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1673 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1729 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1817 0.000019 Berggruen Institute
#1926 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2159 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2599 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2654 0.000046 Council on Foreign Relations
#3637 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#5601 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8153 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9495 0.000001 Hoover Institution
#9798 0.000007 American Enterprise Institute
#9798 0.000007 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9939 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#316 0.000477 Sierra Clib
#959 0.000131 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1037 0.000148 Moderate Conservatism
#1213 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1260 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1377 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1405 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1444 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1491 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1506 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1754 0.000002 350.org
#1941 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1960 0.000061 Social Epistemology
#2015 0.000070 Progress Studies
#2458 0.000029 Harper's Open Letter
#2651 0.000034 The Long Now Foundation
#2816 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2928 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3311 0.000022 Rationality
#3353 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3868 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4108 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4198 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4456 0.000021 Ecomodernists
#4527 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4955 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4985 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5653 0.000001 EFF
#6508 0.000001 Anarachists
#7118 0.000006 Persuasion Community
#7788 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8440 0.000001 Degrowth

Informal Community

#255 0.000372 Founders

Journalism

#571 0.000222 The Atlantic
#781 0.000189 The Intercept
#834 0.000166 Recode
#1134 0.000109 New Yorker
#1173 0.000064 The Daily Beast
#1603 0.000080 Foreign Policy
#1610 0.000002 The Information
#2143 0.000002 Stat News
#2173 0.000001 OANN
#2176 0.000001 Newsmax
#2491 0.000002 The Verge
#3089 0.000002 The Economist
#3356 0.000030 VICE
#3474 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3706 0.000002 CNBC
#4022 0.000025 Wall Street Journal
#4656 0.000002 Wired
#4692 0.000010 The New York Post
#4987 0.000002 Financial Times
#5630 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6081 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6225 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6398 0.000018 Bloomberg Opinion
#7094 0.000002 Reuters
#8595 0.000002 The Dispatch
#9570 0.000007 The New York Times
#9838 0.000002 Washington Post

Science

#1401 0.000091 EconTwitter
#1802 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2197 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2676 0.000034 Biotech
#3983 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5738 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#1259 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1384 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1441 0.000002 Polkadot
#2478 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3185 0.000020 Crypto Infrastructure
#3458 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3543 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3583 0.000001 Cosmos
#4440 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4501 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5970 0.000001 Ethereum
#6254 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6865 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8710 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9099 0.000003 Crypto VC

system

#6816 0.000019 Think Tanks
#7137 0.000020 Baseline

Software Engineering

#1382 0.000002 Rust
#2337 0.000001 Zig

Automatically Detected Communities