Analyzing NYC Caffeine Deprivation through Location Intelligence
How does the city that never sleeps keep moving so fast? Coffee, of course! In this article, we investigate the spatial patterns of coffee shops across New York City and sh...
View ArticleIntroducing GeoParquet: Towards geospatial compatibility between Data Clouds
Today we are happy to introduce the first community proposal for GeoParquet. Our goal is to standardize the storage of geospatial vector data in Parquet, a very popular col...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Spatial SQL
Traditionally, spatial analysis has been behind the rest of the analytics world when it comes to features and capabilities. However, this is no longer the case due to the r...
View ArticleCARTO Self Hosted on Kubernetes in Partnership with VMware
As legal regulations on how user data is managed becomes stricter, Data Governance is becoming a priority for many Enterprises across the globe. In many cases, because of t...
View ArticleWhat's New in CARTO - Q1 2022
During the first quarter of 2022, we released some exciting new features and enhancements to the CARTO platform, giving users unparalleled spatial analysis capabilities, na...
View ArticleWorking Toward a Sustainable Future with CARTO & Google Cloud
After announcing our Sustainability Partnership with Google Cloud last October, we’re excited to further expand on the work and real-world solutions we’ve been developing t...
View ArticleSite Selection for Retailers Using Commercial Hotspot Analysis
One of the most impactful applications of spatial data and analytics is in the area of retail site selection. Retailers continue to evaluate their network of brick-and-mort...
View ArticleDark Store Site Selection: How Geospatial Data Can Help
In New York City, a number of companies such as 1520, Fridge No More, JOKR and BUYK have started offering local grocery delivery in 15 minutes from dark stores. As these se...
View ArticleUnderstanding Retail Store Clusters with Local Outlier Factor Analysis
The retail landscape of a city is a complex and intricate one. A store’s success or failure depends heavily on its location; whether it is in a busy area, has a strong loca...
View ArticleLocating High Performing Retail Expansion Sites
When it comes to retail site selection applications, a common task consists of combining data from different sources to compare the characteristics of target locations and ...
View ArticleCARTO Joins Databricks at Data+AI Summit
At CARTO, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be sponsoring, attending and presenting at the 2022 Databricks’ Data + AI Summit taking place virtually and in-person June 2...
View ArticleAnnouncing CARTO at Global AWS Summits
At CARTO, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be sponsoring and attending multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summits across the world throughout May and June.
View ArticleClosing the Equity Gap with Spatial Analysis
Throughout the course of history, the use of the term “equity” has ebbed and flowed in frequency. Recently, equity has become quite a buzzword. Why? Advancing equity across...
View ArticleCARTO selected by SEAT & Volkswagen as key EV Vehicle Partner
Within the last few years, Spain has been focused on increasing electric vehicle incentives and production; and in 2021, Spain announced that they planned to invest 4.3 bil...
View ArticleHexagons for Location Intelligence: Why, When & How?
You’ve probably seen hexagon grids on maps, and maybe even created some of your own. But have you ever stopped to think about why? This is CARTO’s definitive guide to hexag...
View ArticleCARTO at Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas
We’re thrilled to announce we will be attending, sponsoring and presenting at Snowflake Summit 2022 taking place June 13-16 in Las Vegas, Nevada!
View ArticleSpatial Leaders Gather in London for #SDSC22
Having brought together more than 12,000 experts online in 2020 & 2021, we’re beyond excited to host our long awaited, in-person Spatial Data Science Conference in Lond...
View ArticleHow to Use Spatial Data to Create a Wildfire Risk Map
Wildfires can be detrimental to urban and rural areas, causing impacts in the form of injury, death and property loss. In fact, recent studies (here and here) have shown a ...
View Article5 Reasons Why OOH Professionals Are Turning to Location Intelligence
While travel and commuting pick up speed once again across the world, investment in out-of-home advertising (OOH) is growing in tandem. With OOH ad spend projected to grow ...
View ArticleCARTO for Retail, the Spatial Analytics Platform for Global Retailers
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of CARTO for Retail, a cloud native analytics platform designed specifically for Retailers.
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