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?

farhad manjoo

farhad manjoo

@fmanjoo

I’m an opinion columnist at the New York Times. DMs open. signl: 415-604-2709 farhad@nytimes.com. they/them/he/him.

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#11 0.004162 Homebrew
#113 0.001111 Initialized Capital
#401 0.000330 Khosla Ventures
#529 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#591 0.000243 Y Combinator
#608 0.000003 Founders Fund
#872 0.000168 A16Z
#1060 0.000003 Accel
#1438 0.000108 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1476 0.000003 Sequioa
#1985 0.000002 Bessemer
#2118 0.000042 Village Global
#2461 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2487 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2494 0.000025 Benchmark Capital

Journalism

#23 0.002732 The New York Times
#52 0.001245 Ars Technica
#54 0.001709 Recode
#112 0.001662 The Verge
#334 0.000397 Techcrunch
#343 0.000389 CNBC
#359 0.000547 Wired
#393 0.000422 Wall Street Journal
#437 0.000340 BuzzFeed
#458 0.000268 The Atlantic
#746 0.000169 Bloomberg Opinion
#752 0.000165 New Yorker
#887 0.000131 The Economist
#924 0.000003 The Information
#1191 0.000002 Newsmax
#1201 0.000002 OANN
#1347 0.000107 The Intercept
#1464 0.000003 Stat News
#1541 0.000014 Reuters
#1714 0.000045 Washington Post
#1969 0.000034 Palladium Magazine
#2246 0.000055 The Dispatch
#2799 0.000006 The Daily Beast
#4021 0.000005 Foreign Policy
#4320 0.000003 Financial Times
#5575 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6442 0.000006 The New York Post
#6505 0.000003 VICE

Think Tanks

#69 0.001683 Earth Institute
#322 0.000387 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#883 0.000131 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#976 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#999 0.000143 Brookings
#1036 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1234 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1450 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1731 0.000022 Berggruen Institute
#1837 0.000066 Council on Foreign Relations
#1887 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1940 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2030 0.000072 Center for American Progress
#2978 0.000047 American Enterprise Institute
#2978 0.000047 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2978 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3311 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#4021 0.000005 Niskanen Center
#4852 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5498 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#8688 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#173 0.000742 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#494 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#543 0.000003 Fair Vote
#692 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#730 0.000003 Existential Risks
#790 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#793 0.000142 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#810 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#813 0.000150 EFF
#837 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#930 0.000133 The Long Now Foundation
#1033 0.000078 Harper's Open Letter
#1037 0.000150 Progress Studies
#1038 0.000156 Social Epistemology
#1054 0.000003 350.org
#1242 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1958 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2130 0.000046 Rationality
#2239 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2376 0.000050 Ecomodernists
#2501 0.000028 Degrowth
#2502 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3004 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3277 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3284 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3445 0.000035 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3747 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4154 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4166 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4262 0.000016 Moderate Conservatism
#4899 0.000002 Anarachists
#8061 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8892 0.000004 Persuasion Community

Science

#468 0.000333 Epidemiology Journalism
#1107 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1113 0.000097 Biotech
#1453 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3275 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#9763 0.000003 EconTwitter

system

#171 0.000269 Baseline
#222 0.000163 Reality-Based Community
#7349 0.000018 Think Tanks

Crypto

#523 0.000254 IDEO Founder Collective
#541 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#690 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#732 0.000003 Polkadot
#1549 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1723 0.000057 Crypto Journalists
#1752 0.000067 Crypto VC
#2557 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2620 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2739 0.000002 Cosmos
#3275 0.000020 Crypto Infrastructure
#3363 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4352 0.000002 Ethereum
#4746 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5357 0.000002 Crypto Investing

Informal Community

#2140 0.000064 Founders

Software Engineering

#675 0.000003 Rust
#1357 0.000002 Zig

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