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?

Chris Xu

Chris Xu

@xuhulk

50% “trying to pass helpful messages between practical, determined people”, 50% shitposts. a11y PM + organizing @bedstuystrong.

11692 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#436 0.000358 Mercatus Center
#2902 0.000009 Adam Smith Institute
#5455 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5513 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5699 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5909 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6287 0.000001 Cato Institute
#7061 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7223 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#8643 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#8825 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#9878 0.000000 Earth Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#320 0.000350 Rationality
#4686 0.000025 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5063 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5109 0.000001 Fair Vote
#5203 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5244 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5278 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#5283 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5292 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5349 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5578 0.000001 350.org
#5751 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6460 0.000003 Progress Studies
#7123 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#7134 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#7605 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#8032 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#8275 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#8337 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#8555 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8635 0.000000 Works in Progress
#8946 0.000003 The Long Now Foundation
#9122 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#9143 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#9721 0.000000 EFF

Journalism

#470 0.000260 The Atlantic
#3157 0.000033 VICE
#5380 0.000001 The Information
#5875 0.000001 Stat News
#6155 0.000001 The Verge
#6710 0.000000 OANN
#6729 0.000000 Newsmax
#6752 0.000001 The Economist
#7222 0.000016 Bloomberg Opinion
#7280 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#7346 0.000001 CNBC
#8013 0.000001 Wired
#8548 0.000001 Financial Times
#8849 0.000000 The Intercept
#8967 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9595 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9948 0.000000 Palladium Magazine

Science

#1107 0.000157 Epidemiology Journalism
#5602 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6011 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7554 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Venture Capital

#2213 0.000047 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2832 0.000043 A16Z
#5081 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5112 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5517 0.000001 Accel
#5885 0.000001 Sequioa
#6305 0.000001 Y Combinator
#7347 0.000000 Bessemer
#7592 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#7893 0.000000 Index Ventures
#8149 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#8251 0.000000 Homebrew
#9113 0.000000 Village Global
#9483 0.000000 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#2513 0.000030 Crypto Infrastructure
#5106 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5197 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#5269 0.000001 Polkadot
#6961 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#7791 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#7833 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#7846 0.000000 Cosmos
#8785 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#9193 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Informal Community

#8240 0.000013 Founders

Software Engineering

#5192 0.000001 Rust
#6868 0.000000 Zig

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