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?

Ethan Weiss

Ethan Weiss

@ethanjweiss

profiles.ucsf.edu/ethan.weiss

Scientist (metabolism) & Cardiologist (prevention) @UCSF; @UCSFcardiology; 2 girls, 1 wife (@PalmerWeiss), 1 puppy; relearning to be a sports fan

26290 followers

Lens Rankings

Science

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#273 0.000648 Epidimiology Twitter
#776 0.000214 Epidemiology Journalism
#1553 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1946 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter

Journalism

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#1364 0.000002 The Information
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#1871 0.000001 Newsmax
#1978 0.000052 BuzzFeed
#2258 0.000002 The Verge
#2270 0.000054 The Dispatch
#2851 0.000002 The Economist
#2990 0.000049 The New York Times
#3592 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4237 0.000022 Recode
#4452 0.000002 Wired
#4737 0.000002 Financial Times
#4759 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4769 0.000001 The Intercept
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#5833 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
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#6399 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6921 0.000002 VICE
#7426 0.000002 Reuters
#7747 0.000014 Bloomberg Opinion
#7795 0.000005 The New York Post
#9412 0.000002 Washington Post

Venture Capital

#359 0.000451 My Climate Journey
#540 0.000240 Khosla Ventures
#764 0.000066 Bessemer
#988 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#994 0.000154 Benchmark Capital
#1055 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1497 0.000002 Accel
#1721 0.000077 A16Z
#1899 0.000002 Sequioa
#2188 0.000056 Initialized Capital
#2405 0.000002 Y Combinator
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#4795 0.000001 Village Global

Think Tanks

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#332 0.000412 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1428 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1483 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1681 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1911 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2357 0.000052 Council on Foreign Relations
#2367 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2800 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3400 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3807 0.000027 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4432 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5255 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6262 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6321 0.000017 Brookings
#6399 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7375 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7432 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7742 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9655 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#742 0.000245 Heterodox Academy
#863 0.000142 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#903 0.000152 RadicalxChange
#958 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#969 0.000167 Climate Solutions
#969 0.000125 Ecomodernists
#1006 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1124 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1151 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1184 0.000100 The Long Now Foundation
#1190 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1243 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1260 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1282 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1505 0.000002 350.org
#1690 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2140 0.000036 Harper's Open Letter
#2245 0.000044 Persuasion Community
#2533 0.000032 Works in Progress
#2544 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
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#3831 0.000001 Social Epistemology
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#4697 0.000001 Effective Altruism
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#5402 0.000001 EFF
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#6100 0.000001 Anarachists
#6127 0.000005 Moderate Conservatism
#7498 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7924 0.000001 Rationality
#8089 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#1004 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1134 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1191 0.000002 Polkadot
#1760 0.000067 Crypto VC
#2182 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3171 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3267 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3310 0.000001 Cosmos
#4080 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4132 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5460 0.000001 Ethereum
#5807 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6449 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8380 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8932 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

system

#4967 0.000042 Baseline
#8941 0.000033 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#6889 0.000016 Founders

Software Engineering

#1132 0.000002 Rust
#2033 0.000001 Zig

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