Spatial 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 ...
Events
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Canary 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...
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Capturing the Sensitivity of National Wind Energy Potential to Local Siting Challenges
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...
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A 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...
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Uncovering 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...
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Calculating 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...
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Extending 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...
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CKDelta’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 ...
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Making 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...
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Announcing 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...
Events
Academy
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State of the Art Styling in CARTO VL
One of the most welcomed features of modern vector renderers is the performance advantage they bring to the table. While SVG and Canvas renderers have been developed in the...
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Find and fix underperforming retail markets with spatial data models
Although the landscape has drastically transformed over the last decade, retail analytics have not kept pace which is causing some retailers to close the wrong store locati...
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Introducing CARTOframes: A Python Interface for CARTO
It’s with a lot of pride that we’re releasing CARTOframes, a Python package for interacting with CARTO that’s built specifically with data scientists in mind.
Core Tech
CARTO Content
