Announcing #SDSC20 - Where Will You Join Us?
This past October, over 500 experts gathered at Columbia University for the 3rd annual Spatial Data Science Conference. The number of attendees - this was the largest audie...
View ArticleGoogle Fusion Tables Turndown: An Alternative to Keep Mapping
You’ve probably heard that Google Fusion Tables and the Fusion Tables API will be turned down on December 3, 2019. This means embedded Fusion Tables visualizations (maps, c...
View ArticleSpatial Solutions for the SDGs - COP25
COP (The United Nations Climate Change Conference) is coming to Madrid this year, taking place from December 2nd through December 13th. The event brings ten days in which p...
View ArticleSite Planning for Market Coverage Optimization with Mobility Data
In recent years, the number of brick-and-mortar stores facing closure has swelled. In the retail sector, this phenomenon has come to be known as the retail apocalypse, but ...
View ArticleMap of the Month - Bringing Smallholder Coffee Farmers out of Poverty
Since their beginnings in 14th century Turkey, coffee and coffeehouses have had a significant cultural impact, and green, unroasted coffee is one of the most traded agricul...
View ArticleSpanish Residential Real Estate data in CARTO with Tinsa Digital
New data streams and analysis techniques are critical for industry growth today. Yet until recently, the Real Estate sector suffered from a lack of appropriate analytical t...
View ArticleMagnify your Analysis: Statistical Downscaling to Enhance Spatial Resolution
From understanding the dynamics of a business, to modelling physical and biological processes, scale matters. For spatial data, the concept of scale is closely related to t...
View ArticleQuantifying Park Use in American Cities: Spatial Models and Novel Measures
City agencies need measures for the services they deliver. Police and fire departments measure response time. Transportation and public works departments count potholes fil...
View Article2019's Top Location Intelligence and Spatial Stories
As many of our readers know, every Tuesday morning, the CARTO 5 newsletter delivers the latest stories, tips and tricks, tech updates, and of course, cool maps from around ...
View ArticleEmerging Technology - Impacts on Location Intelligence
In tech, ten years can be an eternity. As of January 1st, 2010, nobody had ever posted to Instagram or sent a Snap. Nobody had taken an Uber or a Lyft. Alexa was a regular ...
View ArticleSpeed up your spatial analysis with CARTOframes 1.0
Spatial analytics is gaining increasing interest from organizations across different sectors as they discover the power of spatial data and analysis to solve their business...
View ArticleTackling Customer Churn for Utilities with Spatial Modeling
Utilities industry players are finding themselves under unprecedented pressure due to rising customer churn and increasing competition. Both global market deregulation and ...
View ArticleTop 3 Insights from The State of Spatial Data Science 2020
Spatial Data Science is a rapidly growing field, and it continues to expand its reach as leaders across dozens of industries recognize its value. In order to understand the...
View ArticleEnrich Spatial Analysis with Landgrid's Nationwide Parcel Data
The map of America is divided and subdivided by hundreds of geographies and geometries at a wide variety of spatial scales. Some of these ever-present boundaries are famili...
View ArticleData Visualization: The Spread of Coronavirus
The world is grappling with 2019-nCoV, the new Coronavirus spreading rapidly from the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province. The spreadi...
View ArticleReal Estate Market Analysis: Top 5 Data Streams
It can be a challenge to maintain a firm grasp on shifting values in ever-changing Commercial and Residential Real Estate markets, but the cost of a knowledge gap can be dr...
View ArticleUS Social Determinants of Health Atlas - Map of the Month
Seeking an understanding of resident health based on the social factors within a neighborhood is not a new concept. But efforts to do so have long been overly simplistic, w...
View Article5 Facts: Out of Home Advertising in 2020
Out of Home advertising is growing, in fact, it’s leaving some more traditional media formats behind. Effective OOH campaigns have proven to have many benefits, the first b...
View ArticleDoorda in CARTO: UK Demographics, Socio-economic Data, and More
You could say that understanding the composition of a city is key to understanding the nature and behaviors of its citizens. Or perhaps it’s the other way around. But moder...
View ArticleMapping Coronavirus Impact on Events & Conferences
As the world continues to battle the spread of COVID-19, more commonly known as the Coronavirus, both the human and economic costs are being felt. According to the World He...
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