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?

Ed Yong

Ed Yong

@edyong209

theatlantic.com/author/ed-yong/

Science writer at The Atlantic. Pandemic reporter. Polk Award winner. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley. edyong.me (he/him)

329840 followers

Lens Rankings

Science

#1 0.109276 Epidemiology Journalism
#7 0.011449 Epidimiology Twitter
#72 0.001194 Biotech
#73 0.001040 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#967 0.000008 Philosophy Twitter
#1108 0.000160 ClimateTwitter
#3864 0.000021 EconTwitter

Journalism

#23 0.003458 The Atlantic
#236 0.000685 The New York Times
#275 0.000328 Stat News
#305 0.000608 Wired
#369 0.000424 BuzzFeed
#441 0.000271 Ars Technica
#523 0.000008 The Information
#733 0.000170 New Yorker
#842 0.000006 OANN
#846 0.000006 Newsmax
#919 0.000176 The Los Angeles Times
#1018 0.000123 VICE
#1074 0.000130 Recode
#1214 0.000108 Bloomberg Opinion
#1426 0.000016 Reuters
#1484 0.000008 The Verge
#1792 0.000042 Washington Post
#1937 0.000008 The Economist
#2104 0.000009 Techcrunch
#2112 0.000064 The Intercept
#2195 0.000066 Wall Street Journal
#2419 0.000008 CNBC
#2590 0.000018 Palladium Magazine
#2618 0.000008 The Daily Beast
#2692 0.000013 Foreign Policy
#3087 0.000036 The Dispatch
#3198 0.000020 The New York Post
#3693 0.000008 Financial Times

Think Tanks

#121 0.002698 Belfer Center
#134 0.000688 Council on Foreign Relations
#366 0.000250 Berggruen Institute
#375 0.000438 Earth Institute
#472 0.000302 American Enterprise Institute
#472 0.000302 National Bureau of Economic Research
#559 0.000008 RAND Corporation
#831 0.000008 Urban Institute
#993 0.000144 Brookings
#1013 0.000008 Heritage Foundation
#1269 0.000046 Eurasia Group
#1349 0.000006 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1441 0.000008 Cato Institute
#1588 0.000070 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1814 0.000021 Adam Smith Institute
#2048 0.000074 Mercatus Center
#2309 0.000063 Center for American Progress
#2491 0.000008 Atlantic Council
#2692 0.000013 Niskanen Center
#3285 0.000011 Hudson Institute
#6141 0.000007 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6919 0.000006 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#56 0.000008 Schumacher Circle
#80 0.001095 Ecomodernists
#106 0.000008 Fair Vote
#126 0.000853 The Long Now Foundation
#241 0.000008 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#258 0.000008 Extinction Rebellion
#292 0.000396 EFF
#294 0.000008 Existential Risks
#370 0.000008 Claremont Institute
#390 0.000008 Ecosocialism
#402 0.000274 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#411 0.000008 Sierra Clib
#551 0.000175 Effective Altruism
#627 0.000008 350.org
#650 0.000210 Works in Progress
#653 0.000260 Environmental Journalists
#712 0.000227 Social Epistemology
#717 0.000247 Climate Solutions
#821 0.000008 Environmental Defense Fund
#907 0.000087 Harper's Open Letter
#950 0.000115 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#954 0.000143 Bismark Analysis
#996 0.000156 Progress Studies
#1249 0.000091 Rationality
#1918 0.000052 Heterodox Academy
#2172 0.000033 Degrowth
#2379 0.000041 Persuasion Community
#2682 0.000006 RadicalxChange
#2696 0.000006 Populist Libertarians
#3468 0.000006 Anarachists
#3899 0.000006 Black Lives Matter
#4137 0.000017 Moderate Conservatism
#7427 0.000006 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Crypto

#103 0.000008 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#275 0.000008 Crypto Political Economy
#297 0.000485 Crypto Journalists
#305 0.000008 Polkadot
#1241 0.000006 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2265 0.000006 Crypto Angels
#2280 0.000006 Public Goods Funding
#2472 0.000006 Cosmos
#2708 0.000007 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3149 0.000006 Ethereum
#3472 0.000006 Decentralized Web
#3581 0.000025 Crypto VC
#4307 0.000006 Crypto Investing
#5511 0.000007 Crypto Infrastructure
#6170 0.000006 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#9 0.000374 Reality-Based Community
#58 0.000404 Baseline
#2763 0.000050 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#101 0.000008 Standard Crypto
#206 0.000008 Founders Fund
#657 0.000008 Accel
#1047 0.000008 Sequioa
#1499 0.000011 Index Ventures
#1578 0.000008 Y Combinator
#1681 0.000006 Bessemer
#1887 0.000058 Village Global
#2194 0.000006 My Climate Journey
#2293 0.000055 A16Z
#2392 0.000006 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2826 0.000006 Benchmark Capital
#3250 0.000006 Homebrew
#4224 0.000006 Initialized Capital
#4607 0.000006 Khosla Ventures

Informal Community

#3637 0.000035 Founders

Software Engineering

#240 0.000008 Rust
#1022 0.000006 Zig

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