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?

Renee DiResta

Renee DiResta

@noUpside

reneediresta.com

studying pathological information systems and how narratives spread @ Stanford Internet Observatory. Prev: quant finance, VC, startups.

59345 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#60 0.001812 Earth Institute
#750 0.000177 Hoover Institution
#930 0.000123 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#989 0.000142 Niskanen Center
#1453 0.000103 Brookings
#1520 0.000064 Atlantic Council
#1761 0.000069 Council on Foreign Relations
#2294 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2348 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2462 0.000059 American Enterprise Institute
#2462 0.000059 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2527 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2536 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2764 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#2818 0.000018 Eurasia Group
#3212 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4990 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5946 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#8098 0.000007 Center for American Progress
#8892 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Culture and Political Economy

#257 0.000478 EFF
#924 0.000150 Bismark Analysis
#963 0.000126 Ecomodernists
#1118 0.000116 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1203 0.000069 Effective Altruism
#1440 0.000088 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1738 0.000060 Persuasion Community
#1847 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1894 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2005 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2035 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2072 0.000039 RadicalxChange
#2074 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2111 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2121 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2154 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2278 0.000043 The Long Now Foundation
#2382 0.000001 350.org
#2566 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3140 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3359 0.000019 Harper's Open Letter
#3522 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4331 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4431 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4538 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4746 0.000009 Progress Studies
#4829 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5294 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6910 0.000001 Anarachists
#7844 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8075 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8502 0.000001 Rationality
#8820 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#322 0.000366 Palladium Magazine
#408 0.000339 Recode
#542 0.000348 The New York Times
#851 0.000149 VICE
#913 0.000128 Ars Technica
#989 0.000142 Foreign Policy
#1271 0.000131 Wall Street Journal
#1669 0.000084 The Intercept
#1940 0.000010 Techcrunch
#1997 0.000067 Bloomberg Opinion
#2225 0.000060 The Atlantic
#2229 0.000001 The Information
#2253 0.000007 Reuters
#2357 0.000009 CNBC
#2527 0.000001 OANN
#2531 0.000001 Newsmax
#2748 0.000001 Stat News
#3084 0.000001 The Verge
#3696 0.000001 The Economist
#4355 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4899 0.000006 The Los Angeles Times
#5186 0.000001 Wired
#5574 0.000001 Financial Times
#6171 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6723 0.000014 New Yorker
#7321 0.000004 Washington Post
#8514 0.000002 The Dispatch

Venture Capital

#490 0.000297 Initialized Capital
#806 0.000061 Bessemer
#1116 0.000148 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1297 0.000108 A16Z
#1872 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1882 0.000093 Homebrew
#1926 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2358 0.000001 Accel
#2746 0.000001 Sequioa
#3230 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3618 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3664 0.000004 Village Global
#3779 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4221 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5267 0.000003 Khosla Ventures

Informal Community

#1566 0.000084 Founders

Crypto

#1547 0.000072 IDEO Founder Collective
#1893 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2002 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2068 0.000001 Polkadot
#2422 0.000031 Crypto Infrastructure
#2813 0.000035 Crypto VC
#2826 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3791 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3857 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3901 0.000001 Cosmos
#4784 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4887 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5566 0.000001 Ethereum
#6695 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7293 0.000001 Crypto Investing

system

#2151 0.000064 Think Tanks
#4335 0.000070 Baseline
#8669 0.000040 Reality-Based Community

Science

#2422 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2822 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#3818 0.000008 Epidemiology Journalism
#4557 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6052 0.000010 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2012 0.000001 Rust
#2692 0.000001 Zig

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