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?

Walter Olson

Walter Olson

@walterolson

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Writer, about law especially; @CatoInstitute. Blogged at Overlawyered (1999-2020). Election law and Maryland civic stuff.

25975 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#6 0.018347 Cato Institute
#49 0.001669 American Enterprise Institute
#49 0.001669 National Bureau of Economic Research
#236 0.000623 Mercatus Center
#307 0.000415 Hoover Institution
#1038 0.000060 Berggruen Institute
#1123 0.000051 Eurasia Group
#1146 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1204 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1386 0.000107 Brookings
#1398 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1514 0.000080 Council on Foreign Relations
#1635 0.000094 Center for American Progress
#1635 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1788 0.000066 Niskanen Center
#1958 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2341 0.000012 Adam Smith Institute
#3027 0.000040 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3142 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4825 0.000002 Earth Institute
#6000 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6229 0.000002 Hudson Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#15 0.004477 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#89 0.001216 Moderate Conservatism
#112 0.001205 Heterodox Academy
#141 0.000990 Social Epistemology
#180 0.000522 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#237 0.000447 Rationality
#415 0.000277 Persuasion Community
#422 0.000371 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#469 0.000300 Works in Progress
#540 0.000137 Harper's Open Letter
#669 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#718 0.000003 Fair Vote
#844 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#866 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#903 0.000003 Existential Risks
#961 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#980 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#1008 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1225 0.000003 350.org
#1412 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1503 0.000098 Progress Studies
#2046 0.000023 Anarachists
#2100 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2234 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2317 0.000052 Ecomodernists
#2634 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2925 0.000017 Effective Altruism
#3273 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3598 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4430 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5120 0.000002 EFF
#5196 0.000009 The Long Now Foundation
#7620 0.000002 Degrowth

Journalism

#31 0.002942 The Dispatch
#670 0.000183 Bloomberg Opinion
#876 0.000152 The Atlantic
#1091 0.000003 The Information
#1384 0.000081 Ars Technica
#1484 0.000036 The Economist
#1517 0.000002 Newsmax
#1524 0.000002 OANN
#1626 0.000003 Stat News
#1788 0.000066 Foreign Policy
#1834 0.000050 The New York Post
#2002 0.000003 The Verge
#2794 0.000005 Reuters
#3180 0.000003 CNBC
#3276 0.000035 New Yorker
#3346 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3815 0.000006 Palladium Magazine
#4227 0.000003 Wired
#4463 0.000003 Financial Times
#4535 0.000002 The Intercept
#5164 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5757 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6667 0.000003 VICE
#7515 0.000002 Techcrunch
#8611 0.000003 Washington Post
#8687 0.000002 Recode
#8881 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

system

#11 0.001490 Think Tanks
#135 0.000292 Baseline
#254 0.000156 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#389 0.000489 Public Goods Funding
#556 0.000270 Ethereum
#716 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#856 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#905 0.000003 Polkadot
#1501 0.000048 Crypto Investing
#1846 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2840 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2955 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3004 0.000002 Cosmos
#3210 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4128 0.000018 IDEO Founder Collective
#4606 0.000011 Crypto Infrastructure
#5011 0.000013 Crypto VC
#5341 0.000002 Decentralized Web

Science

#1277 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1631 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2142 0.000044 Biotech
#3451 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4903 0.000014 EconTwitter
#5136 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

Venture Capital

#702 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#775 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1224 0.000003 Accel
#1629 0.000003 Sequioa
#2149 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2277 0.000002 Bessemer
#2725 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2806 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2936 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3329 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3670 0.000002 Homebrew
#4129 0.000010 Khosla Ventures
#4468 0.000002 Village Global
#4663 0.000002 Initialized Capital

Software Engineering

#847 0.000003 Rust
#1686 0.000002 Zig

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