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?

Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

@mtaibbi

taibbi.substack.com

Author of GRIFTOPIA, THE DIVIDE, THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING, and HATE INC. Podcast, Useful Idiots: UsefulIdiots.Substack.Com

521466 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#42 0.002173 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#401 0.000409 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#502 0.000184 Populist Libertarians
#867 0.000091 Harper's Open Letter
#968 0.000125 Ecomodernists
#1447 0.000072 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2042 0.000044 Heterodox Academy
#2684 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2731 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2753 0.000034 Persuasion Community
#2836 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2868 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2908 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2939 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2940 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2987 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3216 0.000001 350.org
#3394 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3452 0.000012 Effective Altruism
#4176 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4682 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4952 0.000010 The Long Now Foundation
#4976 0.000009 Degrowth
#5023 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5274 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5296 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5807 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6196 0.000006 Rationality
#6278 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6914 0.000001 EFF
#7995 0.000001 Anarachists
#8723 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9478 0.000001 Progress Studies

Journalism

#78 0.001713 The Intercept
#292 0.000557 Wall Street Journal
#963 0.000192 The New York Times
#991 0.000133 Bloomberg Opinion
#1794 0.000041 Palladium Magazine
#2000 0.000044 The New York Post
#2886 0.000011 Foreign Policy
#3040 0.000001 The Information
#3539 0.000029 Ars Technica
#3556 0.000001 Stat News
#3635 0.000001 OANN
#3649 0.000001 Newsmax
#3876 0.000001 The Verge
#4281 0.000025 New Yorker
#4442 0.000011 Washington Post
#4486 0.000001 The Economist
#5091 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5093 0.000001 CNBC
#5831 0.000020 The Atlantic
#5903 0.000001 Wired
#6351 0.000001 Financial Times
#6897 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7509 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8367 0.000001 VICE
#9190 0.000001 The Dispatch

Think Tanks

#186 0.000618 American Enterprise Institute
#186 0.000618 National Bureau of Economic Research
#376 0.000337 Hoover Institution
#582 0.000138 Cato Institute
#2886 0.000011 Niskanen Center
#2997 0.000012 Hudson Institute
#3118 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3166 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3358 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3579 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4160 0.000007 Eurasia Group
#4994 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5027 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5237 0.000016 Mercatus Center
#5791 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#5970 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7029 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7770 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Venture Capital

#336 0.000567 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2705 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2749 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3184 0.000001 Accel
#3559 0.000001 Sequioa
#4022 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4316 0.000001 Bessemer
#4645 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4850 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5233 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5430 0.000001 Homebrew
#6322 0.000001 Village Global
#6571 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7437 0.000001 Khosla Ventures
#9251 0.000006 A16Z

system

#2399 0.000057 Think Tanks
#4959 0.000043 Baseline
#9839 0.000022 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#1819 0.000035 Crypto Investing
#2729 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2831 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2900 0.000001 Polkadot
#3838 0.000003 Ethereum
#3907 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4850 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4878 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4916 0.000001 Cosmos
#5842 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6059 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7914 0.000001 Decentralized Web

Science

#3249 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3658 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5316 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6880 0.000007 Biotech
#6918 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#2839 0.000001 Rust
#3791 0.000001 Zig

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