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?

Joshua Gans

Joshua Gans

@joshgans

joshuagans.com

Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Economics in the Age of COVID-19. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab

13323 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#27 0.003691 RadicalxChange
#205 0.000693 Progress Studies
#470 0.000203 Effective Altruism
#824 0.000149 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#956 0.000136 Works in Progress
#994 0.000124 The Long Now Foundation
#1095 0.000107 Rationality
#1794 0.000067 Ecomodernists
#1867 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1914 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2025 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2055 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2093 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2131 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2140 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2174 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2402 0.000001 350.org
#2584 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3775 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4289 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4425 0.000015 Persuasion Community
#4534 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4904 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5042 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5193 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5892 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6540 0.000001 EFF
#7614 0.000001 Anarachists
#8385 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8623 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9446 0.000004 Harper's Open Letter
#9626 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#55 0.001757 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#61 0.001600 Mercatus Center
#238 0.000478 Brookings
#1300 0.000088 Hoover Institution
#2313 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2367 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2556 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2784 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3231 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4243 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#4474 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4819 0.000022 Center for American Progress
#5592 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6301 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6621 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7393 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8375 0.000010 American Enterprise Institute
#8375 0.000010 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8827 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9494 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Science

#121 0.000928 EconTwitter
#2441 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2842 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4574 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5683 0.000011 Biotech
#6570 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#209 0.000855 Public Goods Funding
#307 0.000465 Ethereum
#1913 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2022 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2088 0.000001 Polkadot
#3485 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4438 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4481 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4525 0.000001 Cosmos
#5604 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7454 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8037 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9697 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Journalism

#876 0.000210 The New York Times
#999 0.000132 Bloomberg Opinion
#2249 0.000001 The Information
#2362 0.000023 Palladium Magazine
#2768 0.000001 Stat News
#3104 0.000001 The Verge
#3213 0.000001 OANN
#3222 0.000001 Newsmax
#3440 0.000017 The New York Post
#3715 0.000001 The Economist
#4315 0.000001 CNBC
#4372 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5204 0.000001 Wired
#5592 0.000001 Financial Times
#5805 0.000001 The Intercept
#6185 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6301 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6793 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7668 0.000001 VICE

system

#875 0.000105 Reality-Based Community
#1683 0.000087 Think Tanks
#6647 0.000022 Baseline

Venture Capital

#1412 0.000094 Village Global
#1892 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1946 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2378 0.000001 Accel
#2766 0.000001 Sequioa
#3250 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3899 0.000001 Bessemer
#4025 0.000010 Khosla Ventures
#4240 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4439 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4468 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4839 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5055 0.000001 Homebrew
#6175 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Informal Community

#4110 0.000030 Founders

Software Engineering

#2032 0.000001 Rust
#3366 0.000001 Zig

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