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?

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher

@karaswisher

nytimes.com/sway

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#47 0.002477 Khosla Ventures
#101 0.001921 Y Combinator
#117 0.000840 Index Ventures
#133 0.000978 Benchmark Capital
#209 0.000635 A16Z
#231 0.000433 Bessemer
#314 0.000507 My Climate Journey
#424 0.000448 Sutter Hill Ventures
#500 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#544 0.000331 Homebrew
#578 0.000003 Founders Fund
#837 0.000055 Sequioa
#1031 0.000003 Accel
#3473 0.000006 Village Global
#3629 0.000018 Initialized Capital

Journalism

#52 0.001724 The New York Times
#67 0.001432 Recode
#164 0.000808 Washington Post
#166 0.000941 The Information
#222 0.000764 Wired
#244 0.000586 Techcrunch
#352 0.000547 The Verge
#738 0.000114 CNBC
#903 0.000129 Ars Technica
#1387 0.000090 New Yorker
#1392 0.000002 Newsmax
#1400 0.000002 OANN
#1429 0.000016 Reuters
#1438 0.000003 Stat News
#1524 0.000086 Bloomberg Opinion
#1756 0.000079 The Intercept
#2089 0.000063 The Atlantic
#2393 0.000003 The Economist
#2828 0.000026 Financial Times
#3057 0.000039 Wall Street Journal
#3162 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3271 0.000019 The New York Post
#3604 0.000016 BuzzFeed
#3755 0.000007 Palladium Magazine
#5170 0.000011 The Dispatch
#5325 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#5534 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6474 0.000003 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#146 0.000979 Heterodox Academy
#309 0.000384 The Long Now Foundation
#464 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#513 0.000003 Fair Vote
#644 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#662 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#700 0.000003 Existential Risks
#761 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#782 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#808 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1025 0.000003 350.org
#1201 0.000119 Black Lives Matter
#1213 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1251 0.000093 Persuasion Community
#1282 0.000064 Harper's Open Letter
#1297 0.000095 RadicalxChange
#1351 0.000111 Social Epistemology
#1353 0.000099 Climate Solutions
#1933 0.000070 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2133 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2572 0.000034 Rationality
#2682 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3395 0.000023 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3480 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3888 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4278 0.000016 Moderate Conservatism
#4308 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#5028 0.000002 EFF
#5311 0.000002 Anarachists
#6129 0.000008 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7406 0.000002 Degrowth
#7434 0.000002 Progress Studies
#8821 0.000004 Ecomodernists

Informal Community

#135 0.000674 Founders

Think Tanks

#360 0.000365 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#428 0.000185 RAND Corporation
#529 0.000096 Eurasia Group
#905 0.000074 Berggruen Institute
#1007 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1206 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1418 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1511 0.000080 Council on Foreign Relations
#1844 0.000092 Earth Institute
#1914 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2172 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2191 0.000066 Brookings
#2950 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3034 0.000046 American Enterprise Institute
#3034 0.000046 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4202 0.000028 Center for American Progress
#4439 0.000018 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5128 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5292 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5325 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#7364 0.000004 Hoover Institution

Crypto

#183 0.000068 Polkadot
#511 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#661 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#680 0.000205 Crypto Journalists
#718 0.000150 Crypto Angels
#1063 0.000115 IDEO Founder Collective
#1442 0.000052 Decentralized Web
#1731 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2542 0.000041 Crypto VC
#2902 0.000002 Cosmos
#3411 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3594 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4699 0.000002 Ethereum
#4884 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#8198 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Science

#590 0.000194 Biotech
#1079 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1423 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3245 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#3539 0.000020 Epidemiology Journalism
#9620 0.000003 EconTwitter
#9987 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

system

#1898 0.000074 Think Tanks
#4127 0.000094 Baseline
#8241 0.000071 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#645 0.000003 Rust
#1561 0.000002 Zig

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