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?

Doug Stafford

Doug Stafford

@dougstafford

randpac.com

Chief Strategist, @RandPaul for Senate/RANDPAC. Opinions here belong to someone who hacked into my account, obviously.

19300 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#198 0.000766 Claremont Institute
#206 0.000493 Populist Libertarians
#331 0.000492 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#423 0.000340 Moderate Conservatism
#1129 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1176 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1294 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1322 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1360 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1424 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1448 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1673 0.000002 350.org
#1857 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2310 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2541 0.000030 Social Epistemology
#2648 0.000048 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2696 0.000043 Ecomodernists
#2728 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2864 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2973 0.000030 Persuasion Community
#3349 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3622 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#4060 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4477 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4509 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5191 0.000002 EFF
#5284 0.000011 Harper's Open Letter
#5651 0.000002 Anarachists
#7246 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7689 0.000002 Progress Studies
#7737 0.000002 Degrowth
#7838 0.000002 Rationality

Journalism

#265 0.000542 The Dispatch
#306 0.000553 The New York Times
#433 0.000221 The New York Post
#1140 0.000079 Washington Post
#1411 0.000017 Reuters
#1528 0.000002 The Information
#1602 0.000002 Newsmax
#1606 0.000002 OANN
#1706 0.000073 The Los Angeles Times
#2061 0.000002 Stat News
#2413 0.000002 The Verge
#2531 0.000052 Bloomberg Opinion
#2624 0.000050 The Atlantic
#2774 0.000012 Foreign Policy
#3008 0.000002 The Economist
#3630 0.000002 CNBC
#3732 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4581 0.000002 The Intercept
#4588 0.000002 Wired
#4828 0.000021 New Yorker
#4910 0.000002 Financial Times
#5565 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5614 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#7049 0.000002 VICE
#7120 0.000005 Recode
#7843 0.000002 Techcrunch
#9377 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#782 0.000188 American Enterprise Institute
#782 0.000188 National Bureau of Economic Research
#869 0.000149 Hoover Institution
#1052 0.000149 Center for American Progress
#1475 0.000090 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1535 0.000042 Hudson Institute
#1593 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1649 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1844 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2077 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2454 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2525 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2774 0.000012 Niskanen Center
#2828 0.000048 Brookings
#3556 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4209 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4944 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5640 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#6067 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8881 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9929 0.000004 Mercatus Center

system

#7811 0.000018 Baseline

Venture Capital

#1158 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1224 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1662 0.000002 Accel
#2063 0.000002 Sequioa
#2357 0.000002 Bessemer
#2565 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2800 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2887 0.000002 Index Ventures
#3013 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3403 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3740 0.000002 Homebrew
#4556 0.000002 Village Global
#4732 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5932 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#6544 0.000012 A16Z

Crypto

#1175 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1300 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1360 0.000002 Polkadot
#1926 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2920 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#3028 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3077 0.000002 Cosmos
#3729 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3839 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5046 0.000002 Ethereum
#5454 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6056 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#8050 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8530 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Science

#1718 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2114 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3903 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5218 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8218 0.000002 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1298 0.000002 Rust
#1770 0.000002 Zig

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