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?

Laura McGann

Laura McGann

@lkmcgann

Ex-Politics & Policy Editor Vox.com, Ex-DME, Politico.com, Labitude 4ever, Niemanlab.org. No one gets my Escape to the Country references.

13878 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

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#921 0.000171 Center for American Progress
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#2888 0.000049 National Bureau of Economic Research
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#6568 0.000010 Mercatus Center
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#9443 0.000000 Belfer Center
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#9809 0.000000 Heritage Foundation
#9887 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

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#422 0.000355 The Intercept
#451 0.000257 Washington Post
#512 0.000269 Recode
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#1389 0.000099 The Dispatch
#4049 0.000030 The Atlantic
#4513 0.000022 Ars Technica
#4750 0.000026 Bloomberg Opinion
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#6128 0.000002 Reuters
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#9302 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9310 0.000000 The Information
#9775 0.000000 Stat News

Culture and Political Economy

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#1406 0.000081 Rationality
#1840 0.000075 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2343 0.000046 Moderate Conservatism
#2651 0.000033 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2725 0.000026 Harper's Open Letter
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#8447 0.000000 Effective Altruism
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#9081 0.000000 Fair Vote
#9162 0.000000 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
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#9229 0.000000 Claremont Institute
#9237 0.000000 Ecosocialism
#9252 0.000000 Existential Risks
#9292 0.000000 Sierra Clib
#9531 0.000000 350.org
#9550 0.000003 Ecomodernists
#9701 0.000000 Environmental Defense Fund

system

#9156 0.000014 Baseline

Crypto

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#8461 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9079 0.000000 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#9154 0.000000 Crypto Political Economy
#9235 0.000000 Polkadot

Venture Capital

#6643 0.000000 Bessemer
#6903 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#7119 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#7184 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7467 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#7597 0.000000 Homebrew
#8452 0.000000 Village Global
#8812 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#9051 0.000000 Standard Crypto
#9073 0.000000 Founders Fund
#9408 0.000000 Khosla Ventures
#9463 0.000000 Accel
#9814 0.000000 Sequioa

Science

#8959 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism
#9555 0.000000 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#9962 0.000000 Philosophy Twitter

Software Engineering

#6159 0.000000 Zig
#9152 0.000000 Rust

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