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?

Victoria McGrane

Victoria McGrane

@vgmac

deputy metro editor @BostonGlobe she/her/hers HEARTS ARE BOOKMARKS NOT "LIKES" DMs open. Victoria.McGrane@globe.com

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#857 0.000174 Niskanen Center
#4987 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5046 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5231 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5444 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5817 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5832 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6549 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6776 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7600 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8317 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8354 0.000007 Center for American Progress

Journalism

#857 0.000174 Foreign Policy
#1189 0.000152 The New York Times
#1824 0.000066 The Los Angeles Times
#2007 0.000037 Washington Post
#2232 0.000060 The Atlantic
#2715 0.000006 Reuters
#3073 0.000039 Recode
#3289 0.000005 Techcrunch
#4256 0.000001 OANN
#4276 0.000001 Newsmax
#4911 0.000001 The Information
#5409 0.000001 Stat News
#5413 0.000015 Wall Street Journal
#5700 0.000001 The Verge
#5869 0.000008 The Dispatch
#6301 0.000001 The Economist
#6666 0.000001 The Intercept
#6824 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6890 0.000001 CNBC
#7584 0.000001 Wired
#7803 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8106 0.000004 The New York Post
#8115 0.000001 Financial Times
#8549 0.000001 BuzzFeed

Venture Capital

#1706 0.000107 Homebrew
#4606 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4642 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4939 0.000001 Bessemer
#5051 0.000001 Accel
#5249 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5319 0.000003 Khosla Ventures
#5416 0.000001 Sequioa
#5468 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5474 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5832 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5836 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#6902 0.000001 Village Global
#7173 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Science

#1144 0.000094 Biotech
#5133 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5540 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7112 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7439 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

system

#5099 0.000039 Baseline

Culture and Political Economy

#4588 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4634 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4729 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4769 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4777 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4809 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4810 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4824 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4878 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5108 0.000001 350.org
#5274 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5282 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5731 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5833 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5890 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6012 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6196 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6365 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6832 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6845 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7482 0.000001 EFF
#7534 0.000013 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#8116 0.000006 Harper's Open Letter
#8548 0.000001 Anarachists
#9219 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9505 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9959 0.000001 Progress Studies

Crypto

#4532 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4631 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4723 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4796 0.000001 Polkadot
#5456 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5473 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5513 0.000001 Cosmos
#6444 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6719 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8531 0.000001 Ethereum
#8546 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#9118 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#4419 0.000001 Zig
#4719 0.000001 Rust

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