R Packages cancensus Co-creator and maintainer Reference Page | Github Access, retrieve, and work with Canadian Census data and geography. Download data and Census geography in tidy and analysis-ready format Convenience tools for searching for and working with Census regions and variable hierarchies Provides Census geography in multiple R spatial formats Provides data and geography at multiple Census geographic levels including province, Census Metropolitan Area, Census Division, Census Subdividision, Census Tract, and Dissemination Areas Provides up-to-date data for the 2016, 2011, and 2006 Censuses airportr Creator Read more

I am an economics and data science professional with interests in applying statistical and ML approaches to strategic problems. I am Canadian but currently based in Singapore where I work as a lead economist at Grab, South-East Asia’s largest tech company. I try to support open-source projects and open data where possible. I’m the co-creator of the cancensus and cansim packages. Many of the posts on this page that relate to Canadian data use one or both of these packages, which I likely to shamelessly promote. Read more

cancensus Reference Page | Github Access, retrieve, and work with Canadian Census data and geography. Download data and Census geography in tidy and analysis-ready format Convenience tools for searching for and working with Census regions and variable hierarchies Provides Census geography in multiple R spatial formats Provides data and geography at multiple Census geographic levels including province, Census Metropolitan Area, Census Division, Census Subdividision, Census Tract, and Dissemination Areas Provides up-to-date data for the 2016, 2011, 2006, and 2001 Censuses cansim Reference Page | Github Read more