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?

Thor Benson

Thor Benson

@thor_benson

thorbenson.com

Writer. Featured in @TheDailyBeast, @TheAtlantic, @RollingStone, @businessinsider, @NBCNews and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and science. LGBTQ

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#57 0.001711 The Atlantic
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#555 0.000359 Wired
#612 0.000235 VICE
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#1596 0.000002 OANN
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#2391 0.000002 The Verge
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#2719 0.000027 The New York Post
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#5610 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#6956 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#7163 0.000004 The Dispatch
#8759 0.000009 The New York Times
#8770 0.000002 Recode

Culture and Political Economy

#435 0.000275 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#665 0.000184 EFF
#1107 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1155 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1272 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1300 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
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#1391 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1402 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1427 0.000002 Sierra Clib
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#2464 0.000040 Persuasion Community
#2714 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2855 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
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#3665 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4051 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4467 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4499 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5069 0.000012 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5492 0.000010 Harper's Open Letter
#5633 0.000002 Anarachists
#7535 0.000002 Rationality
#7681 0.000002 Progress Studies
#7726 0.000002 Degrowth
#8627 0.000005 Ecomodernists

system

#502 0.000194 Baseline
#863 0.000105 Reality-Based Community

Think Tanks

#857 0.000083 Berggruen Institute
#1211 0.000128 Center for American Progress
#1501 0.000039 Eurasia Group
#1573 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1628 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1822 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2056 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2081 0.000070 Brookings
#2440 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2503 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3486 0.000031 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3534 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4180 0.000020 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4867 0.000023 Council on Foreign Relations
#4928 0.000002 Earth Institute
#6956 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7229 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8854 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9328 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#4886 0.000024 Founders

Science

#1697 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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#3780 0.000009 Epidemiology Journalism
#3883 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8213 0.000002 Biotech

Crypto

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#1279 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1338 0.000002 Polkadot
#1916 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2911 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#3019 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3069 0.000002 Cosmos
#3716 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3828 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5028 0.000002 Ethereum
#5443 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6041 0.000002 Crypto Investing
#8036 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8519 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1136 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1203 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1641 0.000002 Accel
#2042 0.000002 Sequioa
#2347 0.000002 Bessemer
#2543 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2791 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2877 0.000002 Index Ventures
#3005 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3395 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3731 0.000002 Homebrew
#4547 0.000002 Village Global
#4724 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5924 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#1277 0.000002 Rust
#1759 0.000002 Zig

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