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 Ganz

John Ganz

@lionel_trolling

working on a book about the early 90s / please subscribe to my substack UNPOPULAR FRONT johnganz.substack.com / don't get most notifications

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#15 0.005745 Niskanen Center
#72 0.001217 Berggruen Institute
#461 0.000184 Urban Institute
#527 0.000274 Center for American Progress
#576 0.000255 American Enterprise Institute
#576 0.000255 National Bureau of Economic Research
#615 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#674 0.000006 Belfer Center
#808 0.000154 Council on Foreign Relations
#1004 0.000142 Brookings
#1073 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1163 0.000115 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1352 0.000006 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1533 0.000006 Cato Institute
#1887 0.000029 Hudson Institute
#1990 0.000077 Mercatus Center
#2590 0.000006 Atlantic Council
#3286 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3385 0.000005 Earth Institute
#4440 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#5523 0.000005 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6682 0.000006 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#15 0.005745 Foreign Policy
#85 0.001602 The Intercept
#185 0.000549 The Atlantic
#249 0.000439 New Yorker
#531 0.000259 Recode
#559 0.000217 Ars Technica
#575 0.000006 The Information
#758 0.000173 BuzzFeed
#760 0.000183 The Verge
#847 0.000005 OANN
#851 0.000005 Newsmax
#1024 0.000128 Bloomberg Opinion
#1081 0.000006 Stat News
#1175 0.000154 The New York Times
#1219 0.000059 The Daily Beast
#1353 0.000067 Palladium Magazine
#1453 0.000022 Techcrunch
#1493 0.000094 The Dispatch
#1562 0.000014 Reuters
#1567 0.000062 The New York Post
#2015 0.000006 The Economist
#2226 0.000053 VICE
#2563 0.000006 CNBC
#3721 0.000028 Wall Street Journal
#3789 0.000006 Wired
#3886 0.000006 Financial Times
#4006 0.000013 Washington Post
#4968 0.000006 The Los Angeles Times

Culture and Political Economy

#46 0.002425 Environmental Journalists
#112 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#161 0.000561 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#162 0.000006 Fair Vote
#203 0.000756 Heterodox Academy
#297 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#298 0.000251 Harper's Open Letter
#313 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#350 0.000006 Existential Risks
#423 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#444 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#466 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#682 0.000006 350.org
#729 0.000165 Ecomodernists
#752 0.000198 Black Lives Matter
#874 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#1168 0.000115 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1519 0.000074 Rationality
#1765 0.000056 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1821 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#1862 0.000055 Persuasion Community
#1924 0.000054 The Long Now Foundation
#2056 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2209 0.000018 Anarachists
#2249 0.000042 Works in Progress
#2686 0.000005 RadicalxChange
#2735 0.000005 Populist Libertarians
#3205 0.000005 Social Epistemology
#3852 0.000005 Effective Altruism
#3928 0.000017 Progress Studies
#4613 0.000005 EFF
#5899 0.000005 Degrowth
#6028 0.000005 Moderate Conservatism

Venture Capital

#155 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#217 0.000730 Homebrew
#257 0.000006 Founders Fund
#277 0.000489 Initialized Capital
#707 0.000006 Accel
#1106 0.000006 Sequioa
#1672 0.000006 Y Combinator
#1686 0.000005 Bessemer
#1822 0.000005 Index Ventures
#2199 0.000005 My Climate Journey
#2396 0.000005 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2423 0.000042 Khosla Ventures
#2829 0.000005 Benchmark Capital
#3528 0.000005 Village Global
#4061 0.000027 A16Z

system

#1544 0.000147 Baseline
#2343 0.000059 Think Tanks
#4421 0.000077 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#159 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#329 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#357 0.000006 Polkadot
#1000 0.000132 Crypto Journalists
#1245 0.000005 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1508 0.000047 Crypto Investing
#2113 0.000053 Crypto VC
#2270 0.000005 Crypto Angels
#2304 0.000005 Public Goods Funding
#2444 0.000011 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2477 0.000005 Cosmos
#3252 0.000005 Ethereum
#3497 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#4717 0.000010 Crypto Infrastructure
#5637 0.000008 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#741 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1050 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2732 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#3997 0.000005 Epidemiology Journalism
#7365 0.000005 Biotech
#7367 0.000006 EconTwitter
#8126 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#295 0.000006 Rust
#1027 0.000005 Zig

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