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?

James Ball

James Ball

@jamesrbuk

jamesrball.com

Global Editor @TBIJ. Author (see pinned tweet). Columnist @TheNewEuropean. Trustee @EJNetwork and @TheMediaSociety. Other stuff. Personal account. 🏳️‍🌈

78725 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#139 0.000769 Existential Risks
#229 0.000620 Social Epistemology
#264 0.000414 Rationality
#360 0.000379 Works in Progress
#714 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#763 0.000002 Fair Vote
#888 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#900 0.000137 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#911 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#946 0.000095 Effective Altruism
#1004 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1025 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1053 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1121 0.000106 Persuasion Community
#1270 0.000002 350.org
#1358 0.000091 Ecomodernists
#1457 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2274 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2410 0.000030 Harper's Open Letter
#2622 0.000046 Progress Studies
#2684 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2827 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3318 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3585 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3639 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4471 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5157 0.000002 EFF
#5185 0.000012 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5594 0.000002 Anarachists
#7073 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7208 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7687 0.000002 Degrowth

Journalism

#288 0.000551 The Economist
#453 0.000268 Ars Technica
#474 0.000141 Reuters
#568 0.000345 Wired
#881 0.000201 Financial Times
#927 0.000136 VICE
#967 0.000138 The Atlantic
#1132 0.000002 The Information
#1245 0.000033 Techcrunch
#1256 0.000105 Bloomberg Opinion
#1561 0.000002 Newsmax
#1567 0.000002 OANN
#1671 0.000002 Stat News
#1864 0.000073 The Intercept
#1928 0.000071 Recode
#2041 0.000002 The Verge
#2361 0.000067 The New York Times
#2552 0.000046 New Yorker
#3225 0.000002 CNBC
#3262 0.000021 BuzzFeed
#3384 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4808 0.000009 Washington Post
#5196 0.000009 The New York Post
#5585 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5598 0.000013 Wall Street Journal
#5807 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6909 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#8058 0.000003 The Dispatch

Think Tanks

#614 0.000299 Earth Institute
#972 0.000167 Mercatus Center
#1189 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1248 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1359 0.000043 Eurasia Group
#1443 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1678 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#1719 0.000025 Adam Smith Institute
#1778 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2141 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2188 0.000050 Hoover Institution
#2278 0.000054 Council on Foreign Relations
#2347 0.000054 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3185 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4175 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#6036 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6216 0.000018 Brookings
#6909 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7192 0.000002 Hudson Institute

Science

#828 0.000201 Epidemiology Journalism
#1321 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1675 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3503 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8195 0.000002 Biotech

system

#4230 0.000080 Baseline
#8310 0.000062 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#3375 0.000038 Founders

Venture Capital

#746 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#818 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1265 0.000002 Accel
#1670 0.000002 Sequioa
#2187 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2318 0.000002 Bessemer
#2765 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2848 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2979 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3370 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3708 0.000002 Homebrew
#4518 0.000002 Village Global
#4702 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5904 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#9981 0.000005 A16Z

Crypto

#760 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#899 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#950 0.000002 Polkadot
#1888 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2883 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2993 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3043 0.000002 Cosmos
#3681 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3796 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4744 0.000002 Ethereum
#5399 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6001 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#7999 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8479 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#891 0.000002 Rust
#1730 0.000002 Zig

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