Data scientist based in Vancouver, Canada. Spatial analysis, demographics, urban planning, and R packages for Canadian data.https://dshkol.com/https://dshkol.com/posts/the-daily-lie-detector/https://dshkol.com/posts/the-daily-lie-detector/Building a system using skills and defensive engineering to catch a model that's very good at lying convincingly to you.Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/the-daily/https://dshkol.com/posts/the-daily/Replicating Statistics Canada's The Daily using Claude Code alongside dedicated tools and a skills-based harness.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/census-monkey-typewriter-pt2-multiagent/https://dshkol.com/posts/census-monkey-typewriter-pt2-multiagent/Assembling my own autonomous data blogging team: quality and workflow improvements from moving to a multi-agent workflowSun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/census-monkey-typewriter/https://dshkol.com/posts/census-monkey-typewriter/An experiment in using LLMs to automate social science writing. Here's what I learned about LLM-assisted social science blogging.Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/spatially-constrained-clustering-and-regionalization/https://dshkol.com/posts/spatially-constrained-clustering-and-regionalization/A step-by-step guide to creating spatially-contiguous socioeconomic clusters in R using the SKATER algorithmMon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/will-walk-for-food-exploring-singapore-hawker-centre-density/https://dshkol.com/posts/will-walk-for-food-exploring-singapore-hawker-centre-density/How many hawker centres and stalls are a short walk away from me at any given location in Singapore? An interactive map, and a step-by-step guide of how it was made.Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/normal-canadian-city/https://dshkol.com/posts/normal-canadian-city/Using Census data to find which Canadian city best represents the national demographic mixFri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/vancouver-mayor-race-twitter/https://dshkol.com/posts/vancouver-mayor-race-twitter/Using Twitter data and NLP tools to look at the timelines of the six most prominent candidates for Mayor of VancouverMon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/cansim-package-tourism-slopegraphs/https://dshkol.com/posts/cansim-package-tourism-slopegraphs/A quick introduction to the cansim R package using an interesting dataset about Canadian domestic tourism trendsWed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/better-maps-with-vector-tiles/https://dshkol.com/posts/better-maps-with-vector-tiles/Short tutorial for using and styling vector tiles in R for more flexibility with mapsThu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/mirror-images-clustering-cities-demographics/https://dshkol.com/posts/mirror-images-clustering-cities-demographics/Using machine learning to find similar cities across many dimensions.Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/diversity-and-segregation-canadian-cities/https://dshkol.com/posts/diversity-and-segregation-canadian-cities/Comparing spatial patterns in visible minority groups across Canadian cities.Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/airportr-a-lightweight-package-for-airport-data/https://dshkol.com/posts/airportr-a-lightweight-package-for-airport-data/Building a package to work with airport dataWed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/the-great-wait/https://dshkol.com/posts/the-great-wait/A look at age-specific birth rates in BCTue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/language-diversity-in-canada/https://dshkol.com/posts/language-diversity-in-canada/A look into linguistic diversity patterns in Canadian citiesTue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dshkol.com/posts/starting-a-blog/https://dshkol.com/posts/starting-a-blog/First post on starting this blogWed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT