Posts by Devon Hopkins
Location Intelligence (LI) is not so quietly becoming a core part of most enterprise business’ strategies. In a survey of 220 data analysts, executives, and scientists, 85%...
Customer Stories
Developers need open-source tools to be able to create applications that are both visually stunning and highly functional. CARTO and the Location Intelligence community hav...
News
As wildfires continue to rage in Ventura and LA County, residents may be wondering what addresses are most affected. This map, created by Mamata Akella (this morning!), sho...
Data Visualization
We’ve talked a lot on this blog about how different business functions use Location Intelligence in very different ways to solve very different problems.
News
Data science is a rapidly growing career path and leaders across all industries, fields, and governments are putting their best minds to the task of harnessing the power of...
Data Visualization
Administrative municipal boundaries, such as districts and neighborhoods, are often used to describe the behavior of citizens that live within cities. However, in most cou...
Customer Stories
According to Glassdoor, data scientist is the #1 job in the United States based on number of job openings, salary, and overall job satisfaction.
Data Visualization
Successfully managing sales territories is not an easy task, but the consequences of doing it poorly are severe: higher overhead (the average business trip costs $2,600), l...
Customer Stories
Editor’s Note: This post was published using maps with real-time data during Hurricane Irma in September, 2017. As those maps no longer display any data, we’ve included a s...
Customer Stories
In our rapidly evolving online world, digital marketers constantly have to find new ways to make sure their campaigns are reaching the right people with the right message.
Customer Stories
We’ve all seen the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline in the news, and every few months, we hear of a catastrophic oil spill.
Data Visualization
You may have heard, a total eclipse of the sun is on the way to 12 states in the United States on August 21, spanning from the west coast of Oregon to the east coast of Sou...
Data Visualization
Last week, over 200 geospatial experts from 150 member states convened at the United Nations to discuss how spatial data and technology are shaping the future of sustainabl...
Location Intelligence
Online retailers have become experts in tailoring consumer experiences, building stronger relationships with customers, and launching targeted ad campaigns by collecting da...
Data Visualization
The opportunity for New York City’s bus system has never been greater. As its sibling system, the subway, enters a declared state of emergency, the NYC bus system could hel...
Customer Stories
Cartography is as much art as it is science. A map can use the best data and most sophisticated analyses but is ineffective if the reader can’t understand the story behind ...
Data Visualization
If you’ve ever been part of a new development project for a store or building, you know how many factors go into making decisions about physical location.
Customer Stories
If Amazon’s planned $14 billion acquisition of Whole Foods goes through, it could radically change the grocery industry. Many news outlets have speculated why Amazon might ...
Customer Stories
You’ve probably seen the headline a dozen times: “[big box store] closes [large number] of Stores Nationwide.”
Customer Stories
While early cartographers didn’t use the term “location intelligence,” they were keenly aware that their maps had an intended purpose.
Cartography & Visualization
There is a nearly endless supply of open data ready for businesses and nonprofits to use. The challenge is that creating something useful with that data is not always easy....
Customer Stories
Open data is justifying all its hype by making local governance easier, more accessible, and transparent for the daily lives of small town and big city residents alike.
Data Processing
Location intelligence (LI) is becoming increasingly vital to a wide variety of industries, but it can still be hard to find conferences and events where you can get smart o...
News
In the age of global technopolis, open government data reigns.
Spatial Data
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