Up-to-date Consumer & Demographic Data: The Backbone for Spatial Analysis
Unlocking the full power of Location Intelligence can only be done using the best data sets in combination with the best spatial analysis. It is for this reason that we hav...
View ArticleInside CARTO Engineering: Configuration Management Makeover
Our primary goal at CARTO is to be the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform, empowering our clients with the best data and the best spatial analysis. We frequentl...
View ArticleSolving Global Litter with Machine Learning & Spatial Data
Surfrider, UNEP, Oceans Conservancy, Keep America Beautiful, Keep Britain Tidy, Zero Waste Canada: many of us will be familiar with the campaigns that NGOs and our governme...
View ArticleRisk Analysis and Optimization with Weather Data
Weather is intertwined in the fabric of our lives. Much of the time, its impact is passive - we keep an umbrella in our desk, we check it to determine our outfit. Sometimes...
View ArticleLive Connections to Remote Databases with Federated Tables
Getting your data connected is usually the first step in working with the CARTO platform. That data might be in files, databases, URLs, services, etc. The options are numer...
View ArticleRetail Revenue Prediction Models with Spatial Data Science
As we round the corner into the latter half of 2019, the retail apocalypse continues. Business Insider is projecting more than 8,000 store closures in 2019, with major bran...
View ArticleSpatial Leaders from Around the Globe Converge on SDSC19
The 3rd annual Spatial Data Science Conference is just three weeks away and we couldn’t be more excited. Being held at Columbia University, this year’s iteration of the for...
View ArticleCARTO and SafeGraph Team Up for Behavior Pattern Insights
Today, perhaps more than ever before, people are on the move. Transitioning between roles as consumers, parents, employees, tourists, and more means making a lot of stops i...
View ArticleSpatial Data Simplified: Introducing Data Observatory 2.0
Data is an essential ingredient for spatial analysis—which is predicated on access to your own data, plus useful third-party data. In the end, spatial analysis is about put...
View ArticleCARTO's Data Observatory 2.0, now powered by Google BigQuery
Today, at the Spatial Data Science Conference, we presented the recently launched Data Observatory 2.0 (DO). A new platform to discover and consume location data for spatia...
View ArticlePostGIS 3.0.0 Just Released
Most of our users are aware that under the hood, CARTO runs on PostgreSQL and PostGIS. In fact, when it comes to contributing to PostGIS, we are the most active organizatio...
View ArticleNew spatial functions in BigQuery, starting with Uber H3-js
As you may have seen in last week’s announcement, we are now working very closely with the Google BigQuery team to support the creation of a next generation spatial data in...
View ArticleCARTO joins The Urban Computing Foundation Technical Advisory Committee
As part of CARTO’s long-standing commitment to Open Source, Open Data, and Open Science, we have collaborated with many organizations providing access to next generation ge...
View ArticleEqual Earth Projection in CARTO!
The recent release of PostGIS 3.0 brings an updated spatial reference system table that includes over 8000 projections out-of-the-box. We’re happy to report that the Equal ...
View ArticleSpatial Analysis for Tourism in Partnership with Andorra
With the goal of providing deeper spatial insight into the nature of one of the country’s most crucial economic drivers, CARTO is excited to be joining in partnership with ...
View ArticleData Events to Enjoy - Winter 2019
Winter doesn’t need to be a season where you stay at home under your blanket, hiding from the dark and cold outside. Rather, these months are perfect for heading out to enj...
View ArticlePostGIS Day: A future, post GIS
Yesterday was GIS day, but here at CARTO, we are even more excited to celebrate PostGIS day today, for two reasons: PostGIS is the name of the beloved database system behin...
View ArticleMapping Your Salesforce Data: CARTO in Einstein Analytics
With nearly 20% of the world’s total CRM market share and the ability to call 80% of all Fortune 500s customers, Salesforce is the engine powering a dramatically significan...
View ArticleSpatial Analysis: Private Equity's Secret Weapon
According to McKinsey, private equity’s (PE) net asset value has grown sevenfold since 2002, two times faster than global public equities. As a result, the number of PE bac...
View ArticleCalculating Catchment Areas with Human Mobility Data
Catchment areas (i.e. trade areas) are the geographic areas from which retailers, wholesalers, and other commercial locations draw most of their business. Calculating them ...
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