Ben Klemens

I'm a computational social scientist. I spend my days searching for interesting things about our world, and for new ways to express and understand them. 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.

My full publication list is linked above, but here are a few favorites:

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.