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Map of the Week: Making Rent in Montréal
Rent and real estate conditions are fascinating subjects for maps. While they may be the maps that haunt us when in moving-in/out mode, they are likewise the ones that help us mostly clearly comprehend...
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CartoDB adds Fi-Ware Connector
Fi-Ware is a public-private partnership launched by the European Union in 2014 to promote the development of smart cities apps based on open standards and open source code. By providing tools and...
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Connecting Teachers and Students to Powerful Mapping Technology Just Got Easier
Here at CartoDB we are always looking for new ways to enable our educational communities. From our commitment to Education and Research in the Classroom to our popular Educator’s Nights and workshops...
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Flying Around the World with CartoDB
As a child, nothing was more exciting to me than a chance to ride on an airplane. And after enjoying playing with the seatbelt buckle and feeling the crazy push of take-off acceleration, I would...
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Designing for the Discovery of Big Data
Spain is the number one tourism country in the world. With sights like the Museo del Prado and Royal Palace of Madrid, it is hard not to see how such spectacular beauty could ever be overlooked.To...
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Explore More Space with Javier de la Torre and CartoDB
With the recent discovery of water on Mars, what better time than now to think of fresh new ways of space exploration and data visualization, as well as how we view the third rock from the sun?On...
View ArticleTorque.js Public Release!
If you’ve ever seen an animated map on the web, or read our technical blogs for the past year, you might be familiar with Torque, CartoDB’s library for animating time-series data on maps. You can...
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Packing Data for Faster Map Rendering
To an outside observer, serving a population of 150,000 map creators and millions of map viewers might seem like a simple matter, but to us it’s a big complex deal, and we’re always looking for ways to...
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Everything's Bigger in Texas, Even GIS!
Howdy Mappers! CartoDB is happy to be a platinum sponsor of the Texas GIS Forum, the state’s premier conference for the geospatial professional community.The Texas GIS Forum is hosted from October 26th...
View ArticleLocation Intelligence for an Engaging Visualization
From real estate and government organizations, to the financial sector—location intelligence is used by many industries to uncover a myriad of insights in big data. Media and Creative agencies can also...
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It’s All About /Me (We mean you ☺)
At CartoDB we listen to what our users need and want. We are constantly brainstorming and coming up with new ideas, but it is always the very best in user experience that we hope to deliver. This month...
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Business Insights at your Fingertips with Geomatrix
Businesses and real estate agencies can save time and money by adding spatial analytics to their intelligence systems. Location analysis can provide insights that support and improve decision making...
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Mapping NOAA NEXRAD radar data with CartoDB
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has just partnered with Amazon Web Services to make a huge amount of historic and current radar data publicly available. In this tutorial we...
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EXTRACT, the conference: Data Stories Worth Sharing
Looking for a digital service that offers an understanding of data complexity that leads to smart decisions, that make people’s lives easier? Looking for a conference that can offer all these things...
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Commons Lab Inventory: a Platform for Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Projects
Amidst the growing number of civically engaged public events, federally led hackathons, and public development projects, the question has arisen, where can all these projects and information sources be...
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Free Your Maps from Web Mercator!
Most maps that we see on the web use the Web Mercator projection. Web Mercator gained its popularity because it provides an efficient way for a two-dimensional flat map to be chopped up into seamless...
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Join CartoDB at Barcelona’s Smart City ExpoWorld Congress!
In the ever changing and rapidly growing ecosystems that define cities, the CartoDB platform has become imperative in enabling citizens, city agencies, and private industries to implement easily...
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Maps of the Week: Celebrate Subways
This past Tuesday marked the 111th anniversary of the New York City Subway, an iconic transport system which to-date has the most active stations of any underground system in the world. Subways operate...
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Empower your Business with CartoDB’s Box Connector
CartoDB has developed a new connector to better integrate your business data – now upload and connect files to Box. Just plug any Box file into CartoDB by selecting the source on the connect dataset...
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Now You Can Work with CartoDB in QGIS
CartoDB’s strength is its agility working alongside other excellent tools in a mapping workflow. QGIS (Quantum GIS) is one of those tools, and its position as a no-cost open-source GIS software leader...
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