Helen is CARTO's Geospatial Advocate where she works to get the data science community excited about thinking about “where?” Whether it's electric vehicle Site Selection, analyzing caffeination deprivation or choosing the next Eurovision Song Contest venue, Helen's posts are all about opening your eyes to the possibilities of geospatial.
You may have heard OpenStreetMap referred to as Wikipedia for maps - and that’s a pretty great summary! OpenStreetMap - or OSM - is essentially a global, crowdsourced effor...
Spatial Data
Few enterprises can ignore the ever-growing shift towards migrating data and analytics architectures to the cloud. Cloud data warehouses offer plenty of benefits over tradi...
Technology
The 19th-20th October 2022 marked a huge day in the Location Intelligence calendar - the Spatial Data Science Conference NYC!
News
If you’re reading this, there’s a big chance you’ve already heard about the Internet of Things. IoT has been a big tech industry buzzword for the past years. With promises ...
Use Cases
Isolines are an incredibly powerful tool in Location Intelligence, showing the areas that can easily access a given location. You may have also heard these referred to as i...
Data Processing
If you’re a Spatial Data Scientist there’s probably one operation type you’ll be performing all the time; maybe more than anything else. The Spatial Join. Spatial Joins are...
Data Processing
Did you know it’s now been over 15 years since Google Street View was launched? It’s been a truly revolutionary technology, allowing users to immerse themselves in places a...
Cartography & Visualization
The Great Resignation, The Big Quit or The Big Reshuffle? The employment landscape has been given many names since early 2021, but they all have one thing in common. They a...
Use Cases
On the 26th July it was announced that the United Kingdom would be hosting 2023’s Eurovision Song Contest. No fewer than 13 cities are expected to bid for the honor of host...
Use Cases
The Circular Economy is a cornerstone of sustainability. It’s defined as a model of production and consumption where the lifecycle of materials and products is extended. Th...
Use Cases
One of the defining elements of the COVID epidemic has been how quickly the situation seems to change. One moment things feel positive with the number of infections slowing...
Use Cases
Introduction If we asked you to picture a UK Retail Centre, what would come to mind? A bustling city centre boulevard or a quaint village high street? A sprawling out-of-to...
Spatial Data
Electric vehicles are becoming one of the true success stories in sustainable transport, both environmentally and commercially. Their popularity has grown exponentially, wi...
Use Cases
The Data Appeal Company’s Hannah Babineau - International Partnerships and Marketing Manager - guest blogs for CARTO!
Spatial Data
Read any news website in 2022 and there’s one phrase you can’t escape; the “cost of living crisis.” In the UK, living costs have been rising at their fastest rate in 30 yea...
Spatial Data
What is the first thing that you do when you open a web map? For most of us, we scroll and scroll until we’re zoomed right in to exactly where we live to find out what’s ha...
Use Cases
If I asked you two or three years ago “Have you ever eaten food from a ghost kitchen?” you’d probably say no, or assumed I was talking about some sort of themed restaurant....
Spatial Data
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...
Spatial Data
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...
Spatial Data
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...
Spatial Data
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...
Use Cases
“Imagine a gender equal world.”
Use Cases
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