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?

Nick Confessore

Nick Confessore

@nickconfessore

nyti.ms/Confessore

Reporter for @NYTimes, staff writer at @NYTmag, @MSNBC political analyst.

213403 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#13 0.005202 Moderate Conservatism
#452 0.000263 Persuasion Community
#812 0.000203 Social Epistemology
#829 0.000094 Harper's Open Letter
#1360 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1770 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1817 0.000001 Fair Vote
#1929 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1958 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#1999 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2036 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2046 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2078 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2305 0.000001 350.org
#2490 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#2776 0.000032 The Long Now Foundation
#4418 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4921 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5016 0.000018 Ecomodernists
#5312 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5540 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5662 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5836 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6036 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6483 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6509 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7141 0.000001 EFF
#8233 0.000001 Anarachists
#9192 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9682 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9975 0.000001 Rationality

Journalism

#31 0.002369 The New York Times
#663 0.000150 The New York Post
#693 0.000200 The Dispatch
#1485 0.000086 New Yorker
#1618 0.000079 Foreign Policy
#1929 0.000069 The Atlantic
#2057 0.000018 The Daily Beast
#2127 0.000070 Wall Street Journal
#2155 0.000001 The Information
#2477 0.000007 CNBC
#2678 0.000001 Stat News
#3011 0.000001 The Verge
#3624 0.000001 The Economist
#3878 0.000001 OANN
#3897 0.000001 Newsmax
#5123 0.000001 Wired
#5507 0.000001 Financial Times
#6109 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6124 0.000002 Reuters
#6350 0.000001 The Intercept
#6713 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7478 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7592 0.000001 VICE
#7958 0.000014 Bloomberg Opinion

Think Tanks

#125 0.000678 Hudson Institute
#259 0.000453 Brookings
#1183 0.000105 Council on Foreign Relations
#1618 0.000079 Niskanen Center
#1956 0.000076 Center for American Progress
#2219 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2275 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2463 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2693 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3140 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4158 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5348 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5850 0.000019 American Enterprise Institute
#5850 0.000019 National Bureau of Economic Research
#6204 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7256 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7985 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9349 0.000004 Mercatus Center

system

#388 0.000208 Baseline
#717 0.000111 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#1795 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1851 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2285 0.000001 Accel
#2673 0.000001 Sequioa
#3156 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3191 0.000024 Khosla Ventures
#4568 0.000001 Bessemer
#4890 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5099 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5109 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5474 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5665 0.000001 Homebrew
#6555 0.000001 Village Global
#6815 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#1816 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1926 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#1991 0.000001 Polkadot
#4157 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5090 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5115 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5154 0.000001 Cosmos
#6076 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6314 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8126 0.000001 Ethereum
#8162 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8751 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#2347 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2745 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4490 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7135 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9881 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1935 0.000001 Rust
#4040 0.000001 Zig

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