How to Build a Tree Equity Index & Dashboard using BigQuery
Like many people who love trees and work in the geospatial field, I was fascinated (and disheartened) by a recent article I read in the New York Times called Since When Hav...
View ArticleThe Data Appeal Company POI & Sentiment Data now available in CARTO
What influences you the most when it comes to choosing where you might book a table at a restaurant? Is it simply a casual glance at the overall rating of the establishment...
View ArticleAnnouncing CARTO’s Return to In-Person Events
After more than a year of virtual events, we are very pleased to announce that we will be returning to in-person and hybrid events over the coming weeks and months. We hope...
View ArticleMaking Human Mobility Models Fair, Inclusive, & Private
Late in 2020, we announced the creation of CARTO’s Scientific Committee to double down on our efforts to make the work of Spatial Data Scientists more productive and to hel...
View ArticleCKDelta’s international human mobility data now available in CARTO
Over the past year the importance of human mobility data has increased significantly, not only as a means to analyze how to mitigate the spread of Covid; but more recently ...
View ArticleExtending Spatial Analytics on Snowflake with CARTO
Exciting news for Snowflake users! As part of our commitment to enabling geospatial analysis natively within the cloud, today we are announcing the launch of our Spatial Ex...
View ArticleCalculating Routes at Scale using SQL on BigQuery
Computing distance metrics is a challenging problem in spatial analysis. When studying urban travel, calculating distances between two locations as the crow flies is the mo...
View ArticleUncovering Site Selection Strategies using Point of Interest Data
In the U.S. it can cost more than $1 million to open a McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Burger King, or Wendy’s restaurant. With such high levels associated with funding startup cost...
View ArticleA Look Back at 18 Months of COVID Grants & Maps
18 months ago, on the same day that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, CARTO announced that it would be making its platform available for fre...
View ArticleCapturing the Sensitivity of National Wind Energy Potential to Local Siting...
Onshore wind energy is among the fastest growing utility-scale renewable energy technologies in the world. With falling costs, usage is on the rise with wind generation cap...
View ArticleCanary Islands Volcano: Mapping La Palma Lava Flow & Damage
On Sunday the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands started erupting causing the destruction of 300 homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 6...
View ArticleSpatial Data Science Conference '21: First Speakers Announced
The 5th annual Spatial Data Science Conference is just over a month away and we are very excited to announce our first lineup of speakers! #SDSC21 will be available to the ...
View ArticleCARTO & Havas Media Group present at Big Data & AI World Madrid 2021
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be presenting alongside Havas Media Group at this year’s Big Data & AI World 2021 (part of the Madrid Tech Show), taking place on O...
View ArticleCARTO Spatial Features, now with global urbanity, climatology, & elevation data
In late 2020, we released our first derivative data product, CARTO Spatial Features, providing global demographic data and Point of Interest (POI) aggregations by category....
View ArticlePMI, Litterati, & Clear Channel Win Geospatial Excellence Awards
Initiated in 2007, Geospatial World Awards are internationally-acclaimed premium awards recognizing exemplary practices in the global geospatial industry. With the ceremony...
View ArticleToday Thousands of Spatial Leaders Gather for #SDSC21
Starting today, the Spatial Data Science Conference Online 2021 (#SDSC21) is bringing together thousands of data scientists, developers, academics, and business leaders for...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Spatial Data Scientist of the Year 2021
What a week it has been! Thousands of you attended this year’s Spatial Data Science Conference 2021 (#SDSC21), featuring 53 speakers across 35 interactive talks, workshops,...
View ArticleExplore Open Buildings with CARTO Spatial Extension for BigQuery
Google recently released the Open Buildings dataset, including 516 million building footprints covering 64% of the African continent. Each building is described as a polygo...
View ArticleCARTO presenting at GEO Business 2021, UK’s largest geospatial event
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be attending and presenting at this year’s GEO Business 2021, taking place on November 24 - 25 at ExCeL London. GEO Business is the UK’...
View ArticleFuel Shortage UK Maps & What Location Data Can Tell Us
In September 2021 many petrol stations across the UK ran out of fuel. Panic buying was attributed to media reports of a leaked government briefing outlining the shortage of...
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