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?

Liam Bright

Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]

34778 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#11 0.007251 Heterodox Academy
#23 0.004433 Works in Progress
#24 0.000012 Schumacher Circle
#74 0.001739 RadicalxChange
#74 0.000012 Fair Vote
#94 0.001410 Social Epistemology
#114 0.000894 Effective Altruism
#159 0.000797 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#176 0.000529 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#186 0.000556 Anarachists
#202 0.000532 Rationality
#211 0.000012 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#227 0.000012 Extinction Rebellion
#238 0.000632 Progress Studies
#262 0.000012 Existential Risks
#295 0.000364 Persuasion Community
#342 0.000012 Claremont Institute
#345 0.000208 Harper's Open Letter
#359 0.000012 Ecosocialism
#382 0.000012 Sierra Clib
#598 0.000012 350.org
#637 0.000235 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#790 0.000012 Environmental Defense Fund
#1139 0.000105 The Long Now Foundation
#1199 0.000108 EFF
#1442 0.000086 Ecomodernists
#1683 0.000008 Environmental Journalists
#1779 0.000008 Climate Solutions
#1910 0.000008 Bismark Analysis
#2568 0.000008 Populist Libertarians
#2917 0.000022 Degrowth
#3666 0.000021 Moderate Conservatism
#3883 0.000008 Black Lives Matter

Think Tanks

#110 0.001344 Niskanen Center
#491 0.000256 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#529 0.000012 RAND Corporation
#593 0.000012 Belfer Center
#657 0.000204 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#802 0.000012 Urban Institute
#944 0.000012 Heritage Foundation
#1119 0.000135 American Enterprise Institute
#1119 0.000135 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1144 0.000125 Brookings
#1146 0.000108 Council on Foreign Relations
#1300 0.000008 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1305 0.000012 Cato Institute
#1385 0.000113 Center for American Progress
#1417 0.000032 Berggruen Institute
#1741 0.000024 Adam Smith Institute
#1912 0.000030 Eurasia Group
#2208 0.000067 Mercatus Center
#2342 0.000012 Atlantic Council
#2371 0.000019 Hudson Institute
#3111 0.000008 Earth Institute
#3153 0.000031 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#110 0.001344 Foreign Policy
#266 0.000393 Bloomberg Opinion
#451 0.000241 Palladium Magazine
#492 0.000012 The Information
#532 0.000230 Ars Technica
#556 0.000273 The Intercept
#810 0.000008 OANN
#820 0.000008 Newsmax
#956 0.000012 Stat News
#1262 0.000106 The Atlantic
#1448 0.000012 The Verge
#1766 0.000013 Techcrunch
#1852 0.000012 The Economist
#1955 0.000009 Reuters
#2023 0.000054 The Los Angeles Times
#2200 0.000012 CNBC
#2401 0.000034 The New York Post
#2436 0.000012 The Daily Beast
#3209 0.000035 The Dispatch
#3477 0.000012 Financial Times
#3525 0.000012 Wired
#3833 0.000014 Washington Post
#3995 0.000012 BuzzFeed
#4658 0.000022 New Yorker
#5125 0.000012 VICE
#5169 0.000022 The New York Times
#5966 0.000012 Wall Street Journal
#6368 0.000008 Recode

Science

#128 0.001087 Philosophy Twitter
#613 0.000289 Epidimiology Twitter
#659 0.000012 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1059 0.000106 Biotech
#1181 0.000147 Epidemiology Journalism
#2874 0.000034 EconTwitter
#5327 0.000016 ClimateTwitter

Venture Capital

#70 0.000012 Standard Crypto
#175 0.000012 Founders Fund
#561 0.000261 Initialized Capital
#627 0.000012 Accel
#788 0.000201 Village Global
#1013 0.000012 Sequioa
#1457 0.000012 Y Combinator
#1638 0.000008 Index Ventures
#1645 0.000008 Bessemer
#1954 0.000057 Khosla Ventures
#2182 0.000008 My Climate Journey
#2377 0.000008 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2712 0.000045 A16Z
#2814 0.000008 Benchmark Capital
#3240 0.000008 Homebrew

Crypto

#71 0.000012 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#245 0.000012 Crypto Political Economy
#270 0.000012 Polkadot
#672 0.000249 Public Goods Funding
#850 0.000160 Ethereum
#1218 0.000008 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1588 0.000053 Crypto Infrastructure
#2232 0.000008 Crypto Angels
#2431 0.000008 Cosmos
#2444 0.000008 Crypto Journalists
#2627 0.000008 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3108 0.000008 Decentralized Web
#3169 0.000013 Crypto Investing
#3870 0.000022 Crypto VC
#5778 0.000008 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#5103 0.000039 Baseline
#5685 0.000023 Think Tanks
#8399 0.000053 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#4376 0.000028 Founders

Software Engineering

#209 0.000012 Rust
#996 0.000008 Zig

Automatically Detected Communities