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?

Sean Illing

Sean Illing

@seanilling

seanilling.com

Dad. Writer @ Vox. Sisyphus stan. Email: sean.illing@vox.com

18063 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#94 0.001478 Niskanen Center
#455 0.000273 Council on Foreign Relations
#1195 0.000130 Center for American Progress
#1368 0.000083 Hoover Institution
#1414 0.000109 American Enterprise Institute
#1414 0.000109 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1964 0.000083 Earth Institute
#2152 0.000068 Brookings
#3430 0.000034 Mercatus Center
#4882 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4942 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5128 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5341 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5727 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6137 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6526 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6676 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7000 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7114 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8868 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#94 0.001478 Foreign Policy
#658 0.000210 Recode
#685 0.000203 The Dispatch
#697 0.000184 The Atlantic
#930 0.000162 The Intercept
#1302 0.000087 Ars Technica
#1490 0.000089 Bloomberg Opinion
#1494 0.000056 Palladium Magazine
#1927 0.000085 The New York Times
#2425 0.000049 New Yorker
#4806 0.000001 The Information
#4873 0.000000 OANN
#4891 0.000000 Newsmax
#4972 0.000009 The New York Post
#5307 0.000001 Stat News
#5599 0.000001 The Verge
#6201 0.000001 The Economist
#6726 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6787 0.000001 CNBC
#7487 0.000001 Wired
#7506 0.000002 Techcrunch
#7984 0.000001 Reuters
#8018 0.000001 Financial Times
#8455 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9083 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9928 0.000001 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#172 0.000535 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#466 0.000339 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#708 0.000250 Heterodox Academy
#805 0.000139 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#902 0.000087 Harper's Open Letter
#1246 0.000094 Persuasion Community
#1298 0.000063 Effective Altruism
#2170 0.000046 Works in Progress
#2254 0.000050 Moderate Conservatism
#2620 0.000027 Social Epistemology
#3070 0.000038 EFF
#3198 0.000034 Ecomodernists
#3745 0.000021 Progress Studies
#4483 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4529 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4624 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4664 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4704 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4707 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4719 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4773 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5005 0.000001 350.org
#5178 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5367 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#5506 0.000008 Rationality
#5841 0.000001 Anarachists
#5846 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6378 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6482 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6773 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7426 0.000000 Black Lives Matter

Science

#1793 0.000099 Epidemiology Journalism
#5028 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5437 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7012 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

system

#1732 0.000084 Think Tanks
#6187 0.000026 Baseline

Venture Capital

#2366 0.000029 Village Global
#2949 0.000034 Initialized Capital
#3584 0.000015 Khosla Ventures
#4501 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4537 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4948 0.000001 Accel
#5313 0.000001 Sequioa
#5532 0.000000 Bessemer
#5732 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5819 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6040 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6075 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6403 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6552 0.000000 Homebrew

Crypto

#4526 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4618 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4691 0.000001 Polkadot
#5138 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6039 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6044 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6083 0.000000 Cosmos
#7025 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7300 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9120 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9177 0.000000 Ethereum
#9653 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#4614 0.000001 Rust
#5033 0.000000 Zig

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