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?

Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim

@stephenwertheim

columbia.edu/~saw2156

America in the world. Director of Grand Strategy, @QuincyInst. Author, @TomoTheWorld. History PhD, @Columbia. Likes sloths. Views are my own.

17342 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#144 0.000611 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#345 0.000314 Persuasion Community
#362 0.000448 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#539 0.000138 Harper's Open Letter
#2552 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2599 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2613 0.000007 Populist Libertarians
#2706 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2736 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2776 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2808 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2809 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2855 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3085 0.000001 350.org
#3262 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4116 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4520 0.000012 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4623 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4698 0.000010 Degrowth
#4955 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5216 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5234 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5369 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5750 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6192 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6221 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6862 0.000001 EFF
#7381 0.000002 Rationality
#7939 0.000001 Anarachists
#8676 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9426 0.000001 Progress Studies

Journalism

#374 0.000406 The Intercept
#2197 0.000061 Bloomberg Opinion
#2859 0.000021 Washington Post
#2913 0.000001 The Information
#2987 0.000022 The New York Post
#3010 0.000042 The Atlantic
#3020 0.000023 Financial Times
#3427 0.000001 Stat News
#3574 0.000001 OANN
#3587 0.000001 Newsmax
#3749 0.000001 The Verge
#4182 0.000023 Recode
#4360 0.000001 The Economist
#4968 0.000001 CNBC
#4969 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5078 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5795 0.000001 Wired
#6224 0.000002 Reuters
#6745 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6792 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7394 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8246 0.000001 VICE

Science

#592 0.000235 EconTwitter
#3119 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3528 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5198 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6867 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9628 0.000001 Biotech

Think Tanks

#338 0.000119 Belfer Center
#573 0.000154 Berggruen Institute
#724 0.000066 Heritage Foundation
#743 0.000085 Cato Institute
#774 0.000217 Atlantic Council
#1203 0.000126 American Enterprise Institute
#1203 0.000126 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1361 0.000090 Council on Foreign Relations
#1385 0.000096 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1551 0.000072 Hoover Institution
#1870 0.000079 Brookings
#1998 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2039 0.000072 Center for American Progress
#2987 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3228 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5872 0.000013 Mercatus Center
#6108 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6745 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6968 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7715 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9952 0.000001 Hudson Institute

system

#947 0.000195 Think Tanks
#7621 0.000018 Baseline
#9318 0.000027 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#2576 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2620 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3053 0.000001 Accel
#3432 0.000001 Sequioa
#3901 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4255 0.000001 Bessemer
#4586 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4791 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4808 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5174 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5375 0.000001 Homebrew
#5471 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#6266 0.000001 Village Global
#6512 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#2598 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2700 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2770 0.000001 Polkadot
#3844 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4789 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4817 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4860 0.000001 Cosmos
#5782 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5996 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7749 0.000001 Ethereum
#7844 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8402 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#2708 0.000001 Rust
#3730 0.000001 Zig

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