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Map of the Week: Mapping scent in Cityscapes
As humans, our sense of smell, or olfaction, often triggers the recollection of memorable experiences and the reflexive tuning of our taste buds. How we rectify these triggers with our physical...
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Let your labels shine!
A few months ago we announced our brand new free basemaps—Positron and Dark Matter—built with OpenStreetMap data and designed with the help of our friends at Stamen; your data will absolutely pop when...
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Finding the Nearest Neighbor
Apps with maps, on phones and on the web, are frequently built around “nearest neighbor” queries, sifting through a database to find the records that are contextually appropriate given an input...
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Take a Risk the Right Way with CartoDB's Financial Risk Whitepaper Assessment
One of the biggest challenges of the 2008 global financial crisis was the inability for financial institutions to handle risk management in a rapidly changing demographic. For businesses to progress...
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CartoDB will be in San Diego; let's meet up!
Some companies ask their users to follow them, but we love following our users. Since the Esri User Conference will be happening in San Diego next week, we’ll be there to celebrate the geospatial...
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4 Ideas about the CartoDB Sync Tables functionality
Sync Tables are my favorites; having almost real-time maps without having to code a single line is something that I find amazing, even if this element has been a CartoDB staple for a long time now....
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One-Click mapping: The Mapping Revolution
Remember the days before cell phones, when you used to have to wait around at home to take a call? Or when the only way you could buy books, groceries, and clothes was by physically going to a store?...
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Welcome Matt Forrest!
Matt Forrest is a map, transit, and technology enthusiast, and now he’s joined our New York office as our new Account Manager. Matt will put his business, project management, and consulting experience...
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Enterprise Spotlight: PlaceSpeak
CartoDB has always been a big advocate of civic technology. From our partnerships with organizations such as Code for America and rapidly growing grant programs for startups, climate action, and...
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Geocoding with CartoDB: Magic at your fingertips
Sometimes datasets don’t contain any geospatial columns, but they have names, IP addresses, zip codes, or other information that can be translated into coordinates. CartoDB is able to assist you with...
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CartoDB in Bogotá, Colombia for Geomatics Week
International Geomatics Week 2015 will take place in Bogotá’s Whyndam Hotel from August 10 - 14, 2015 as part of the Agustín Codazzi Geographical Institute’s 80th anniversary celebrations. The event’s...
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Open Call: Insight. A Data and Design Competition
We love our community of mappers, designers, and data-afficionados. Which is why CartoDB is proud to announce: Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront for Art...
View ArticleTechChange Workshop on Real-time Mapping
At the invitation of Eva Adler and Norman Shamas, I had the pleasure of giving a workshop on CartoDB’s real-time mapping capabilities for the TechChange class Mapping for Social Good. Eva Adler’s...
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Come join us at Chi Hacknight!
We’re hosting a workshop in Chicago, IL, this week, and you’re invited! Join us for some geo-fun as we take on the Chi-town civic tech scene.Chicago has one of the best open data portals of any city...
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Insight Competition Judges Announced!
As our first ever data and design competition ramps up, we at CartoDB and Storefront for Art and Architecture are working hard to make both the competition and the Measure exhibit a big success with...
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Pitch in at MapLift: Earn Boosted CartoDB Features!
As mappers, you might be familiar with a few theories of cosmology related to how our earth supports itself, the less scientific of them being the most fascinating. In Ancient Greece and Rome, Atlas...
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Summer Mapping Project
With summer starting to wrap up in the Northern Hemisphere, so are trips to the beach, the mountains, or anywhere in between. What better time than now to highlight all the memories made with your GPS...
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CartoDB - The Proven Path forward for Google Maps Engine Users
The migration from GME to CartoDB is incredibly easy. Organizations ready to make the switch can maintain the same great platform and elements that make cartography and data visualization great.CartoDB...
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CartoDB at SXSW 2016 - Vote for us!
Once a year the worlds of tech and music converge in a celebration of all things cool, hip, and innovative. South by Southwest is one of the most important tech events in the United States. Last year,...
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Two weeks left to submit projects for Insight: A Data and Design...
There have been many exciting happenings this month at CartoDB. From growing our partnership with Code for America, to our upcoming CartoCamp at NYU it’s been a busy week for our community! Earlier...
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