dshkol @dshkol.bsky.social · 12/06/2026pycancensus 0.2 out on pypi now - imho the best way to work with canadian census data in python for humans and agents alike - the apis are still cancensus (R) flavoured but the python code is better and more performant now, bugfixes - better caching + functions for working w hierarchical vectors 100
dshkol @dshkol.bsky.social · 12/01/2026CANSIM has 60k+ tables. StatCan covers a handful at a time in The Daily. What if the cost of coverage was (nearly) zero? The D-AI-LY (dshkol.com/thedaily/) checks for recently updated and neglected series and writes up releases for them with viz, links to source material, and reproducible code. 240
dshkol @dshkol.bsky.social · 27/10/2025the cancensus R package has had 81k dls since 2018. It's the best way to interact with StatsCan data for R users. pycancensus is a full python port, with equivalent data access and manipulation grammar, output, and geospatial retrieval. check it out here: github.com/dshkol/pycan...github.comGitHub - dshkol/pycancensus: python port of cancensus R packagepython port of cancensus R package. Contribute to dshkol/pycancensus development by creating an account on GitHub. 1101