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?

John McCafferty

John McCafferty

@jdmccafferty

Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

23341 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#354 0.000400 Initialized Capital
#625 0.000200 Khosla Ventures
#1004 0.000145 A16Z
#3569 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3606 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4024 0.000001 Accel
#4396 0.000001 Sequioa
#4837 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6235 0.000000 Bessemer
#6507 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6721 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6780 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7078 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#7217 0.000000 Homebrew
#8080 0.000000 Village Global

Culture and Political Economy

#523 0.000289 Bismark Analysis
#578 0.000319 Heterodox Academy
#671 0.000236 Progress Studies
#704 0.000183 The Long Now Foundation
#727 0.000166 Rationality
#1001 0.000130 Works in Progress
#1059 0.000084 Effective Altruism
#1275 0.000064 Harper's Open Letter
#3548 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3594 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3611 0.000021 Persuasion Community
#3696 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3730 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3771 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3783 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3795 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3846 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4075 0.000001 350.org
#4248 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4259 0.000017 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5801 0.000019 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#6051 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#7001 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#7144 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#7185 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7460 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8089 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8678 0.000000 EFF
#9748 0.000000 Anarachists

Think Tanks

#777 0.000098 Berggruen Institute
#1194 0.000119 Niskanen Center
#1673 0.000093 Mercatus Center
#3969 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4021 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4206 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4425 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4834 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5801 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7342 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#8818 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9514 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#1194 0.000119 Foreign Policy
#1650 0.000076 New Yorker
#3885 0.000001 The Information
#4398 0.000001 Stat News
#4705 0.000001 The Verge
#5309 0.000001 The Economist
#5585 0.000000 OANN
#5604 0.000000 Newsmax
#5753 0.000007 The New York Post
#5871 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5902 0.000001 CNBC
#6644 0.000001 Wired
#7151 0.000001 Financial Times
#7640 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7826 0.000000 The Intercept
#8256 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8937 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9113 0.000001 VICE
#9981 0.000011 The Atlantic

Crypto

#1139 0.000113 Crypto VC
#2757 0.000035 IDEO Founder Collective
#3292 0.000012 Crypto Investing
#3593 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3686 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3759 0.000001 Polkadot
#4988 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5846 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6483 0.000005 Crypto Infrastructure
#6718 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6741 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6769 0.000000 Cosmos
#7712 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#8036 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9929 0.000000 Ethereum

Science

#4100 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4513 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6134 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8579 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#3694 0.000001 Rust
#5743 0.000000 Zig

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