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?

Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez

@normative

juliansanchez.com

He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.

52875 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#10 0.007299 Social Epistemology
#33 0.002972 Rationality
#83 0.001270 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#88 0.000921 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#104 0.000926 EFF
#136 0.000986 RadicalxChange
#192 0.000632 Moderate Conservatism
#309 0.000536 Heterodox Academy
#362 0.000377 Works in Progress
#362 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#403 0.000381 Bismark Analysis
#411 0.000004 Fair Vote
#545 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#560 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#598 0.000004 Existential Risks
#618 0.000119 Harper's Open Letter
#665 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#684 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#709 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#720 0.000201 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#763 0.000119 Effective Altruism
#925 0.000004 350.org
#1082 0.000114 Persuasion Community
#1112 0.000073 Anarachists
#1113 0.000004 Environmental Defense Fund
#1947 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2110 0.000065 Progress Studies
#2247 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3264 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4058 0.000015 The Long Now Foundation
#4154 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4699 0.000010 Degrowth
#8278 0.000006 Ecomodernists

Think Tanks

#36 0.004868 Cato Institute
#51 0.002455 Niskanen Center
#139 0.000772 American Enterprise Institute
#139 0.000772 National Bureau of Economic Research
#143 0.000710 Brookings
#342 0.000455 Mercatus Center
#519 0.000157 Hudson Institute
#682 0.000219 Center for American Progress
#821 0.000151 Council on Foreign Relations
#851 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#909 0.000004 Belfer Center
#991 0.000009 Heritage Foundation
#1110 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1172 0.000049 Eurasia Group
#1310 0.000037 Berggruen Institute
#1683 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1858 0.000060 Hoover Institution
#2238 0.000014 Adam Smith Institute
#2851 0.000004 Atlantic Council
#2862 0.000042 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4260 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5750 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#51 0.002455 Foreign Policy
#56 0.002139 The Dispatch
#56 0.001204 Ars Technica
#338 0.000349 The Atlantic
#543 0.000280 The Intercept
#786 0.000239 Wired
#801 0.000004 The Information
#1012 0.000131 Bloomberg Opinion
#1176 0.000002 Newsmax
#1188 0.000002 OANN
#1344 0.000004 Stat News
#1348 0.000132 The New York Times
#1735 0.000004 The Verge
#2211 0.000008 Techcrunch
#2228 0.000059 Recode
#2240 0.000064 Wall Street Journal
#2296 0.000004 The Economist
#2322 0.000007 Reuters
#2507 0.000045 VICE
#2775 0.000015 Palladium Magazine
#2906 0.000004 CNBC
#3076 0.000004 The Daily Beast
#3126 0.000020 The New York Post
#3354 0.000034 New Yorker
#4179 0.000004 Financial Times
#4610 0.000010 Washington Post
#4874 0.000004 BuzzFeed
#5405 0.000004 The Los Angeles Times

system

#210 0.000764 Think Tanks
#1059 0.000158 Baseline
#1976 0.000086 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#409 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#510 0.000359 Public Goods Funding
#562 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#605 0.000004 Polkadot
#729 0.000196 Ethereum
#962 0.000105 Crypto Infrastructure
#1535 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1709 0.000057 Crypto Journalists
#2543 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2726 0.000002 Cosmos
#3343 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4427 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#5303 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#6796 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective
#9818 0.000002 Crypto VC

Science

#717 0.000169 Biotech
#979 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1322 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3135 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#3451 0.000025 EconTwitter
#4013 0.000005 Epidemiology Journalism
#9692 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Venture Capital

#400 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#484 0.000004 Founders Fund
#931 0.000004 Accel
#1353 0.000004 Sequioa
#1868 0.000060 Khosla Ventures
#1871 0.000094 Homebrew
#1885 0.000004 Y Combinator
#1973 0.000002 Bessemer
#2324 0.000051 Initialized Capital
#2445 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2448 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2648 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3067 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#4103 0.000002 Village Global

Software Engineering

#543 0.000004 Rust
#1342 0.000002 Zig

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