New Academy Lesson: Torque.js
The Map Academy, our repository of long form lessons on important skills in CartoDB, has a new lesson on using Torque.js. The interactive map above is the end product of this Map Academy lesson. Torque...
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Map of the Week: Trailing Fishers in the Suburbs
Guest post by Laura AllenWhen I pitched my article Keeping up with the Carnivores for JSTOR Daily on the encroachment of predators into urban America, I knew that one of my favorite carnivores,...
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Go Bananas with the MailChimp Connector
It’s time to get that marketing data analysis monkey off your back, and CartoDB is glad to help! We are excited to introduce the new MailChimp Connector, a feature that melds our mutual love of...
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Some different ways to use Torque
Last weekend I published a pretty long blog post about some Torque methods you probably haven’t used. If you have used Torque before to make maps with data and are interested in how to use it in new...
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Our favorite Earth Day maps
At CartoDB our toes grow green. That is to say, we love our planet, environment, biodiversity, clean water, and all great things that envelope our shared hunk of rock in space. So Happy Earth Day!...
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Layers of Meaning from Tables of Data: Creating A Multi-layer Geoportal app...
“How many layers does CartoDB support?” It’s a question we hear often. The word “layer” has been a part of the GIS nomenclature since the times of John Snow, and the geospatial community is used to...
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As American as Baseball and...Twitter Maps!
Many things herald the long-awaited arrival of spring - sunnier weather, leafier trees - but no springtime event is more exciting to baseball fans than Opening Day! On an appointed day in April, all 30...
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Nepal Coverage: Mapping Quake and Rescue
This past Saturday, an epic earthquake devastated Nepal, resulting in a profound death toll and an impressive response from the humanitarian and crisis-mapping community.We’ll be updating this post...
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Food for Wisdom: CartoChat Lunches at CartoDB Madrid.
Here at CartoDB we love connecting the dots, knowing a little (or a lot) about almost anything, and getting to know more about things that empower us to think outside the box—so much so that we’re...
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Dream Me. Build Me. Make Me Real.
On May 13, 2015 from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m., CartoDB will participate and host a session of NewCo at the CartoDB Brooklyn Office - 143 Roebling Street, 2A. Chief Science Officer Andrew Hill will present on...
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Join us for GeoJourNews!
Take a look at some of the most well-trafficked maps in our gallery and it’s not hard to understand how often data-driven journalism underscores great maps, and how common the contribution of reporters...
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CartoDB's Humanitarian Hand and the UN Global Pulse Annual Report
We’ve got a theory that mapping the global impact of data and information helps create better, more socially aware, and global citizens.Take a graph of a water drought in South Sudan, for example. To...
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Data Synchronization with OGR
CartoDB has an excellent and easy-to-use synced tables feature, that reads data from a public URL on a regular schedule and keeps an associated CartoDB table up-to-date. However, synced tables require...
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TrendMap - CartoDB's Map of the Moment Just a Tab Away
CartoDB is open by definition, so it’s about time we let you in on which one of the public maps you made is the most popular one at the moment. As you may be aware of, we at CartoDB love to challenge...
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Welcome Jorge
We’re excited to introduce our latest addition to our Madrid team, Jorge Sanz! Jorge is based on our Madrid office and will be helping CartoDB users on complex projects as solution architect.Jorge is a...
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We're Uncle Sam Approved! Federal-friendly Terms of Use
Great news for everyone in the US Federal Government who loves maps! CartoDB has agreed with the Government Services Administration (GSA), the agency responsible for coordinating procurement across all...
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The Spanish Regional and Municipal Elections: CartoDB Powers Real-Time Results
This past Sunday was election time again in Spain. Every four years people head to the polls for a regional and municipal election that often foreshadows what is to come in the national election held...
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Making Maps with GDELT + CartoDB
What would it look like to literally map the world’s news as it happens? What if you could reach across a growing fraction of the world’s news media every day, in real time, in 65 languages, and put a...
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Take Flight with EBP and CartoDB for Europe's Green Week 2015
The EuroBirdPortal project is launching on June 5th in support of Europe’s Green Week 2015. The EBP project tackles the important task of ornithological research and conservation by developing a viewer...
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GeoJourNews: To the Presses!
A short week after our conference celebrating news and maps, and a short month away from State of the Map, we wanted to write and wrap up some of the awesome of GeoJourNews. On May 15th (that is...
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