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?

Josh Barro

Josh Barro

@jbarro

Columnist for Insider. Host of KCRW's Left, Right & Center & cohost w/ @popehat of All the President's Lawyers. Instagram: @ joshbarro

279620 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#5 0.010652 Niskanen Center
#40 0.001940 American Enterprise Institute
#40 0.001940 National Bureau of Economic Research
#57 0.001460 Center for American Progress
#81 0.000873 Eurasia Group
#89 0.002138 Urban Institute
#93 0.001244 Mercatus Center
#174 0.000569 Council on Foreign Relations
#175 0.000693 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#298 0.000430 Cato Institute
#302 0.000305 Hudson Institute
#348 0.000370 Brookings
#435 0.000386 Earth Institute
#533 0.000011 RAND Corporation
#598 0.000011 Belfer Center
#659 0.000185 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#839 0.000087 Berggruen Institute
#890 0.000145 Hoover Institution
#912 0.000095 Adam Smith Institute
#969 0.000011 Heritage Foundation
#1009 0.000071 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1816 0.000040 Atlantic Council

Journalism

#5 0.010652 Foreign Policy
#29 0.002231 Ars Technica
#30 0.002943 The Dispatch
#89 0.001008 The Atlantic
#92 0.001184 The New York Times
#96 0.000937 Bloomberg Opinion
#103 0.001344 The Intercept
#162 0.000597 New Yorker
#173 0.000765 Washington Post
#185 0.000571 The New York Post
#249 0.000526 Recode
#420 0.000162 Reuters
#497 0.000011 The Information
#784 0.000008 OANN
#785 0.000204 The Los Angeles Times
#811 0.000211 Wall Street Journal
#816 0.000008 Newsmax
#889 0.000113 Palladium Magazine
#910 0.000100 The Daily Beast
#967 0.000011 Stat News
#976 0.000122 BuzzFeed
#1328 0.000035 The Verge
#1353 0.000039 CNBC
#1424 0.000023 Techcrunch
#1880 0.000011 The Economist
#2492 0.000033 Financial Times
#3573 0.000011 Wired
#4494 0.000017 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#29 0.000011 Schumacher Circle
#43 0.002102 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#54 0.001863 Moderate Conservatism
#64 0.001655 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#79 0.000011 Fair Vote
#104 0.001213 Works in Progress
#160 0.000888 Social Epistemology
#188 0.000416 Harper's Open Letter
#215 0.000011 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#232 0.000011 Extinction Rebellion
#246 0.000480 Ecomodernists
#267 0.000011 Existential Risks
#278 0.000569 Progress Studies
#284 0.000386 Rationality
#294 0.000546 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#330 0.000330 Effective Altruism
#347 0.000011 Claremont Institute
#364 0.000011 Ecosocialism
#387 0.000011 Sierra Clib
#410 0.000280 Persuasion Community
#603 0.000011 350.org
#795 0.000011 Environmental Defense Fund
#822 0.000208 Heterodox Academy
#849 0.000199 Environmental Journalists
#941 0.000131 The Long Now Foundation
#1771 0.000009 Climate Solutions
#1896 0.000008 Bismark Analysis
#2194 0.000033 RadicalxChange
#2275 0.000017 Anarachists
#2352 0.000012 Populist Libertarians
#2738 0.000044 Black Lives Matter
#4567 0.000008 EFF
#5174 0.000008 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#75 0.000011 Standard Crypto
#180 0.000011 Founders Fund
#181 0.000837 Khosla Ventures
#265 0.000530 Village Global
#426 0.000332 Initialized Capital
#631 0.000011 Accel
#1019 0.000011 Sequioa
#1073 0.000135 A16Z
#1472 0.000011 Y Combinator
#1614 0.000008 Index Ventures
#1642 0.000008 Bessemer
#1940 0.000080 My Climate Journey
#2240 0.000040 Benchmark Capital
#2375 0.000008 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3238 0.000008 Homebrew

Science

#273 0.000522 Epidemiology Journalism
#664 0.000011 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#795 0.000153 Biotech
#831 0.000159 EconTwitter
#924 0.000011 Philosophy Twitter
#2416 0.000011 Epidimiology Twitter
#4164 0.000027 ClimateTwitter

Crypto

#76 0.000011 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#250 0.000011 Crypto Political Economy
#278 0.000011 Polkadot
#331 0.000442 Crypto Journalists
#505 0.000299 Crypto VC
#610 0.000286 Public Goods Funding
#841 0.000162 Ethereum
#1215 0.000008 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1304 0.000059 Crypto Investing
#1729 0.000029 Cosmos
#1864 0.000022 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1875 0.000043 Crypto Infrastructure
#2223 0.000008 Crypto Angels
#3060 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#5439 0.000009 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#119 0.000314 Baseline
#132 0.000193 Reality-Based Community
#744 0.000402 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#265 0.000366 Founders

Software Engineering

#214 0.000011 Rust
#994 0.000008 Zig

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