Ben Klemens
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Ben Klemens | |
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| Born | April 10, 1975 |
| Occupations | Economist, writer, emoji designer |
| Known for | Software patents Falafel emoji |
| Website | ben |
Ben Klemens (born April 10, 1975[citation needed]) is an Australian economist, author, and co-host of the podcast 'Pod, Paper, Scissors'.[1] He works for the US Treasury Department[2] and was previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on Social and Economic Dynamics.[3] He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Caltech.[4]
Klemens is the author of the proposal to the Unicode consortium for the Falafel emoji,[5] which will be appearing across web platforms in 2019.[6][7]
In the realm of statistical computing, Klemens has done extensive work on statistical analysis for large data sets and non-traditional models such as agent-based models. He developed an innovative library of statistics functions for C, named Apophenia,[8] and has written a textbook on statistical computing, Modeling with Data.[9]
