Announcing CARTO Spatial Extension for Snowflake
At CARTO, our mission is to help customers unlock spatial analytics in the cloud, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of the CARTO Spatial Extensi...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Impact of Tree Equity in Chicago
The Healthy Regions + Policy Lab (or HeRoP) at the University of Chicago integrates innovative GIScience, public health, and statistical approaches to explore, understand, ...
View ArticleHow to Create React Apps with Maps & Location Data
Organizations use spatial analytics to solve a variety of business problems, from deciding where to open a new store or fulfillment center to optimizing delivery routes. To...
View ArticleGeographically weighted regression for spatial analysis in BigQuery
Although leading data warehouses already offer some level of support for spatial data, they can usually only work with core spatial functionalities and lack some of the adv...
View ArticleCARTO & Databricks: Bringing Spatial Analysis to the Lakehouse Platform
True to our mission of unlocking spatial analytics in the cloud, today we are thrilled to announce the beta launch of the CARTO Spatial Extension for Databricks.
View Article2021 Black Friday Analysis: Why Retailers Should Pay Attention
Shopping in-store has steadily become less popular since online shopping experiences have improved and offered more convenience for consumers. As SafeGraph explored last ye...
View ArticleCARTO raises $61M to lead the way in cloud native spatial analytics
Today we are delighted to announce the closure of a $61 million Series C round led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with p...
View ArticleDistance-based functions for the spatial analysis of point data in BigQuery
Following our recent blogpost describing the availability of the Geographically Weighted Regression method to estimate local spatial relationships, we have now incorporated...
View ArticleHow to build a revenue prediction model with CARTO & BigQuery
Sales forecasting and revenue prediction have become increasingly important to retailers during the past two years as store owners have had to rapidly react to evolving con...
View ArticleCARTO 2021: Our Year In Review
As 2021 draws to a close we look back at another eventful year for CARTO which encompassed some of our biggest announcements to date. This included the launch of a new clou...
View ArticleAssisted Living Facilities Site Selection for Elderly Care
By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1...
View ArticleJoin CARTO at Leading Data Science, GIS, & Analytics Events
Last year we announced our return to in-person and hybrid events and we were very excited to re-engage with Data Science, GIS, & Analytics communities at a number of ev...
View ArticleData Driven Marketing with CARTO for OOH Advertising
The global pandemic had a huge impact on outdoor media, with ad revenues dropping an estimated 29% during 2020, according to the Out of Home Advertising Association of Amer...
View ArticleHow to Enrich Spatial Analysis on BigQuery, Snowflake, & more
Making access to spatial datasets as frictionless as possible is core to our mission of increasing the efficiency of analysts and data scientists working with spatial analy...
View ArticledataPlor's International POI Data now available in CARTO
Emerging markets present some of the most exciting opportunities for companies looking to grow their brand, market share, and revenue.
View ArticleCan Kanye West Save Gap? What Maps & Location Data Reveals
On September 29, 2021, Kanye West and Gap dropped the newest iteration of their partnership, “The Perfect Hoodie”. In a matter of hours, online pre-orders for this hoodie s...
View ArticleGeospatial Analytics & AWS: CARTO Spatial Extension for Redshift
As we continue in our mission to help our customers unlock spatial analytics in the cloud, today we are excited to announce the general availability of the CARTO Spatial Ex...
View ArticleHow T-Mobile Uses Spatial Data to Improve Network Planning
When building its 5G home internet service in the United States, like most Internet Service Providers (ISPs), T-Mobile found itself facing a critical challenge: qualificati...
View ArticleDetermine Optimal Store Locations using White Space Analysis
As brick & mortar retailers, and the CPG categories they distribute, look to expand their footprint, network planners need access to insightful analysis and modeling te...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day: Mapping Financial Inequality by Gender
“Imagine a gender equal world.”
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