CartoDB at the Startup Institute NYC!
Building a startup is both difficult and rewarding work. It requires a team of dedicated and passionate people, with the tools and skills to face challenges head on, and re-imagine the possibilities of...
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MaptimeNYC's favorite SQL statements for CartoDB
Recently, CartoDB had the the chance to put our new space to work by hosting MaptimeNYC in our New York office. This exciting and informative session was a great opportunity to bring together mappers...
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Welcome Eric
We’re pleased to welcome Eric Bean to the Madrid contingent of the CartoDB team! He’ll be souping up our customer relations with a slurry of financial services, data analytics, and management...
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The Northwest Bushwick Community Map Redesign
Today we hear from a friend from our NYC community, Chris Henrick. Chris is a MFA Design & Technology graduate student at Parsons, The New School For Design. He is a long time user and an expert on...
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Map of the Week: Blogging Bumpy Bike Rides
This week’s map features the adventures of Varun Adibhatla on his quest to visualize the epic New York Century Bike Tour. A self-professed “ridestat geek,” Varun was inspired to experience his second...
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Guest post: Visualize a year of Citi Bike rides with Kimono and CartoDB
Today we are excited to bring you a guest post from our friends at KimonoLabs. If you aren’t familiar with Kimono, they bring a set of tools that enable you to create APIs from data and information...
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Welcome Fran
We’re pleased to welcome Francisco Dans to the CartoDB team! He’ll be animating bubbles everywhere with Torque.js.Fran is from Galicia, one of the most lovely places in Spain and just landed from...
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Nope, that’s not an oil slick. Look again. The colors correspond to every American river based on which direction each one flows. But this visualization does more than showcase the rainbow-effect. It’s...
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Welcome Michelle
Allow us to introduce the newest addition to our growing collection of cartographers, Michelle Chandra! She’s just joined our NY office where she specializes in showing CartoDB love to our global...
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Welcome Eva
We are excited to introduce Eva Cabanach who returns to Madrid from London to join the CartoDB team! Eva will be helping grow our community of users through dedicated outreach.Eva is an avid traveller...
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GME is Deprecated, Why Switch to CartoDB + Google Maps API
Today marks the beginning of the wind down for Google Maps Engine. As of today, the service is no longer taking new signups. Some good news is that we have been working closely with Google to create a...
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Create dynamic visualizations from private data using Named Maps
A common challenge we see facing our users is how to create dynamic maps with secure data. We have always had the ability to securely publish interactive maps from private data on CartoDB. Today, we go...
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The 5+ maps that explain the State of the Union
On Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union Address. This year marks the first year that the State of the Union address was made available as full text for perusal...
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Rat Race: Mapping Conservation in the Galapagos Archipelago
As many know, CartoDB’s commitment to elevating efforts in conservation, climate change, and the environment has shaped our practice and given way to many exciting mapping projects such as the creative...
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Dude, where's my snowplow? OpenData.City uses CartoDB to bring municipal data...
The open data movement is sweeping the globe like winter storm Juno has swept the Northeast. Yet when individual cities want to make their data available online, they don’t want to end up with a data...
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Welcome Aurelia
Join us in welcoming our latest cartographer, Aurelia Moser, to the CartoDB team in New York City! Aurelia is a librarian, developer and cartographer by trade who builds communities around code through...
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Night at the Museum
CartoDB is excited to participate in the American Museum of Natural History’s Educator’s Evening on January 30. We’re excited because we know that secondary and primary students will do amazing things...
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Mapping Superbowl XLIX
In case you were trapped on a moutain, in a blizzard so thick you couldn’t see your hands in front of your face, and just got back to civilization this morning, let us say the Superbowl happened last...
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Carlos Tallon joins CartoDB
We’re excited to announce that Carlos Tallón is joining CartoDB. Carlos was previously lead designer at Minijuegos.com. He has excelent taste in design and aesthetics and awesome iconography skills....
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CartoDB at FOSS4G-NA and PGCONF 2015
FOSS4G and PGCUS are the premiere conference series for the open data movement which seeks to bridge society, developers, educators, activists, companies, and governments together on the subject of...
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