50 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Spatial Data Science
Last year’s 50 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts was one of our most popular blog posts. That list focused on people from all over the Location Intelligence industry, from journ...
View ArticleMaking the Map: Game of Thrones Trivia
Like much of the rest of the world, the team here at CARTO includes dozens of passionate fans of HBO’s megahit, Game of Thrones, which comes to its much anticipated conclus...
View ArticleImproving Healthcare Access with Spatial Data Models
America’s urban-rural divide looms large in modern American discourse, across varied and diverse fields and arenas. The nation’s rural areas, as designated by the US Census...
View ArticleCARTO acquires Geographica to expand its professional services offering
We are pleased to announce that we have acquired one of our leading partners, Geographica. The team joins us with more than 12 years of experience in the geospatial consult...
View ArticleUpgrading our Core Platform to PostgreSQL 11
Traditional standards are being replaced by new processes that feed our modern, data-driven world, where large amounts of data are created and shared every second by indivi...
View Article3 Unexpected Uses for Mastercard Retail Location Insights
Credit card transaction insights allow decision makers to equip themselves with a deeper understanding of consumers and trends. In partnering with Mastercard, and with the ...
View ArticleLaunching our New Professional Plan
Here at CARTO our vision is to enable every organization out there to solve spatial problems with the best data and analysis. We build our products with the belief that Loc...
View Article3 Next-Gen Spatial Use Cases for the Utilities Industry
It’s a tough time for the Utilities industry, both in developed and developing markets. Large players across the sector are concerned about updating their grid infrastructu...
View ArticleMap of The Month: Trajectories of Neighbourhood Change
Socio-economic inequalities in the UK have remained persistently high over the last forty years. In the UK, the Gini coefficient, a commonly used measurement of inequality,...
View ArticleOn-demand last mile transportation: Real-time route optimization with...
In recent years we have seen the emergence of numerous marketplace platforms connecting customers to a wide variety of products and services. Clear examples of this are Ube...
View ArticleNew Spatial Data Science Video Research Guides
Sage Research Methods is the ultimate methods guide, providing over 1000 high quality books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos the showcase the re...
View ArticleLocation Intelligence Underpins Cannabis Sector Growth
News of a rising cannabis industry is nearly impossible to avoid these days, as global perception and regulatory structures have changed dramatically over the last decade.
View ArticleAnnouncing 2019's Spatial Data Science Conference
The field of Spatial Data Science is growing exponentially, across multiple industries. Academic programs are springing up globally, with some of the world’s leading instit...
View ArticleIntroducing Our Location Data Streams Catalogue
Location Intelligence is transforming how companies are doing business across multiple industries worldwide. Business decisions are no longer made based solely on an organi...
View ArticleChampions League Insights via Short-Term Rental Data and LI
The travel and hospitality industry, with its innate spatial component is a top-10 growth driving industry for spatial analytics. An understanding of spatial patterns in pe...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Location Intelligence and Spatial Webinars
With soaring, scorching temperatures impacting people across the globe, this Summer is relegating many of us to the indoors. To give you something to do while cooling off i...
View ArticleStop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis
The last time you used your zip code, you were most likely entering your address into a website to make a purchase, finding a store near your home or office, or filling out...
View Article10 Location Intelligence Events You Should Attend This Fall
Energized from your summer vacation (which hopefully you’re enjoying right now, sipping a refreshing beverage and enjoying the CARTO blog), fall is a great time to get back...
View ArticleForrester Includes CARTO Among Location Intelligence Platform Providers In...
We are proud to announce our inclusion in Forrester’s exclusive Now Tech: Location Intelligence Technologies, Q3 2019 report. The report, which details many of the applicat...
View ArticleCan Short-term Rental Meet Demand to Meet Aliens at Area 51?
It started out as a joke-event on Facebook, but 2 million registered event attendees later, September 20th, 2019, the scheduled date of “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All ...
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