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The Data Observatory's reach expands to England & Wales
We are proud to announce the availability of demographic data for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics in the United Kingdom.With much focus right now on the Brexit results and...
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Connect with CartoDB in July!
CartoDB is more dedicated than ever to bringing web-based mapping solutions and advanced analytics to your geospatial data in the most intuitive and insightful way possible. We love engaging with the...
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Introducing CARTO Builder: A new way to analyze and visualize location data
Today we are excited to showcase and open the beta program for our new product—CARTO Builder. We’ve been working really hard on rethinking location data analysis techniques and have come up with some...
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Taking a look at NBC's realtime Zika dashboard created with CARTO Builder
The Zika virus has been around for over 50 years but it wasn’t until this year that the World Health Organization declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, as the virus continues...
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Story Spelunking in Spain Using the Data Observatory
The Data Observatory keeps on growing! After our initial release, which included the American Community Survey in the United States and the Spanish Census, and later demographic data from the U.K.,...
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Building a Great Collection of Indoor Maps with Micello
In previous posts, we covered how the Mobile SDK can be used for indoor mapping. We really like indoor mapping because it is a unique way to visualize nontraditional geographic spaces like conferences,...
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Three Measures in the Data Observatory Worth Exploring
We are making so many new measures available through the Data Observatory that we just had to highlight some interesting ones.1. US population with a Master’s Degree The supply and demand ratio for...
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Effects of Overfishing, Made Better with Location
CARTO has an extensive history with working alongside non-profits and non-governmental organizations to provide insights to better serve humanity and the world. Recently, several NGOs and different...
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The Data Observatory welcomes Mexico!
We’re thrilled to announce that the Data Observatory is welcoming Mexico into the fold with an impressive array of demographic data from the Mexican Census. This new data is specific to the block level...
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Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and CARTO Expose Realities of Gentrification...
San Francisco has long been at the forefront of the discussion about the impact gentrification and the changing economic and demographic landscapes have on cities and the people who live there. CARTO...
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New Academy Lesson: How to Choose Map Colors, Part 2
Learn how to create beautiful, informative map palettes step-by-step in our new Map Academy Intermediate Design lesson: How to Choose Map Colors, Part 2.Color is extremely important in cartography,...
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Announcing Batch Queries on the SQL API
During the last few months, to create a more compelling platform and provide all the necessary functionality for the new Builder, we’ve made some additions to our Engine. Before we began working on...
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Guest Post—Analyzing Agricultural Policy With Farmland Monitoring Project
CARTO’s Grants For Good Program is excited to share the great work being done by our grantee, Farmland Monitoring Project. It is our pleasure to introduce Adam Calo, PhD student at UC Berkeley...
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Mapping for a Cause: the Telefónica Yamaha Globalrider Fundraiser
On May 27, 2016 Telefónica and Yamaha kicked off Globalrider, the world’s first ride-around-the-world fundraiser on a motorcycle where both the rider and bike remain fully connected along the...
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Going to FOSS4G in Bonn, Germany? Come check out the latest and greatest with...
Each year the open source geo-lovers at CARTO (which is pretty much everyone) sets their sights to FOSS4G as a landmark event to not only share how we’re impacting the world of free and open source...
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Pokémon GO is All About Location Intelligence
Pokémon GO is Apple’s most downloaded app in a first week ever, and reached an estimated 100M Android downloads from the Google Play Store as of three days ago.In this game, where users try to “catch”...
View ArticleJoin us for the Hackathon for Natural Disaster Management, in Quito!
CARTO is going to Ecuador! On September 2nd we will be participating in the Hackathon for Natural Disaster Management in Quito, Ecuador. The hackathon’s mission is to use data and geospatial technology...
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CARTO welcomes some new members to our Sales team in North America!
Our Sales team in North America continues to grow quickly, and we’re excited to welcome some new faces with Brigitte Boyles, Tony Ferreira, Joe Pringle, Danny Sheehan, and Bryan Spiro to the CARTO...
View ArticleExcited for SXSW 2017? Vote for our CARTO-inspired submissions for Interactive!
It’s that time of year again! As professionals and technology lovers from across the world flock to Austin, TX for what has become the largest and most prolific event in music, film, and interactive...
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Using Builder for Creating Data-driven Point Maps
Just a few weeks ago, we started giving access to the new CARTO Builder to people on our early access list. There have been some articles and positive reactions about it (Thanks!), so we wanted to...
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