Ben Klemens

I'm a computational social scientist and author. I spend my days searching for interesting things about our world and new ways to express and understand them, and do my best to help everybody learn about them. Besides a long stream of articles in the popular and academic press, I've worked on patent reform at Brookings and the Free Software Foundation, a library for statistical computing at the US Census Bureau, and published a handful of books.
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My full publication list is linked above, but here are a few favorites:

An NYT biography focusing on the origins of agent-based modeling
A descriptive study on U.S. domestic migration using 1.7 billion observations.
A theory paper on patent valuation in different industries.
An interactive tax flowchart.
An op-ed about twelve dimensional spheres in Scientific American.
For your surveys, a measure of inter-rater reliability.
A podcast about game theory.
A new card game for your old decks of playing cards.