Posts by Javier de la Torre

Javier de la Torre

Javier de la Torre is founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CARTO. One of the pioneers of location intelligence, Javier founded the company with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization. Under his leadership, CARTO has grown from a groundbreaking idea into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world.
In 2007, he founded Vizzuality, a renowned geospatial company dedicated to bridging the gap between science and policy making by the better use of data.

Javier de la Torre • Sep 19, 2022

Databricks support for H3 in collaboration with CARTO

Over the past few months we have been working with Databricks to add built-in support for H3, and this added functionality was released recently. Native support for H3 mean...
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Javier de la Torre • Apr 11, 2022

Working Toward a Sustainable Future with CARTO & Google Cloud

After announcing our Sustainability Partnership with Google Cloud last October, we’re excited to further expand on the work and real-world solutions we’ve been developing t...
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Javier de la Torre • Mar 24, 2022

Introducing GeoParquet: Towards geospatial compatibility between Data Clouds

Today we are happy to introduce the first community proposal for GeoParquet. Our goal is to standardize the storage of geospatial vector data in Parquet, a very popular col...
Technology
Javier de la Torre • Feb 14, 2022

Geospatial Analytics & AWS: CARTO Spatial Extension for Redshift

As we continue in our mission to help our customers unlock spatial analytics in the cloud, today we are excited to announce the general availability of the CARTO Spatial Ex...
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Javier de la Torre • Dec 9, 2021

CARTO & Databricks: Bringing Spatial Analysis to the Lakehouse Platform

True to our mission of unlocking spatial analytics in the cloud, today we are thrilled to announce the beta launch of the CARTO Spatial Extension for Databricks.
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Javier de la Torre • Nov 16, 2021

Announcing CARTO Spatial Extension for Snowflake

At CARTO, our mission is to help customers unlock spatial analytics in the cloud, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of the CARTO Spatial Extensi...
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Javier de la Torre • Oct 12, 2021

Announcing CARTO Spatial Extension for BigQuery

Today we announced at Google’s Cloud Next ‘21 the General Availability of the new CARTO Spatial Extension for BigQuery. Our friends from Google Cloud are showcasing it toda...
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Javier de la Torre and Pablo Fernandez • Sep 23, 2021

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...
Use Cases
Javier de la Torre and Margara Tejera • Jul 29, 2021

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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Javier de la Torre and Margara Tejera • Apr 29, 2021

Enhancing Geospatial in BigQuery with CARTO Spatial Extension

At CARTO, we firmly believe that the future of geospatial analysis lies in the realm of next generation cloud data warehouses. Traditional data sources (such as census data...
Use Cases
Javier de la Torre and Chad W. Jennings • Mar 4, 2021

How Google Cloud & CARTO power geospatial analysis at scale

As the volume of data with a location component continues to grow exponentially, both geospatial analysts and data scientists are looking to scale their analytical workflow...
Use Cases
Javier de la Torre • Feb 11, 2021

Announcing CARTO BigQuery Tiler General Availability

Introducing BigQuery Tiler
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Javier de la Torre • Jan 22, 2021

3 Spatial Data Science Trends to Watch in 2021

Geography is changing faster than ever before. Global warming and COVID-19 are pushing change at an unprecedented speed, modifying our environments, markets, and society. T...
Spatial Data
Javier de la Torre • Dec 11, 2020

Our Thoughts as MapboxGL JS v2.0 Goes Proprietary

This week, Mapbox announced that they were changing the license of their MapboxGL JS library as part of their latest v2.0 release. The library has gone from an Open Source ...
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Javier de la Torre • Oct 14, 2020

CARTO for deck.gl: The Best Way to Develop Spatial Apps

Map visualization on the web has evolved a lot in recent years. We have seen a rapid shift to Vector Tiles and more visualizations powered by the Graphics Processing Unit (...
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Javier de la Torre • Aug 11, 2020

CARTO BigQuery Tiler is Now Available for Google Cloud Platform

As announced at Google Cloud Next ‘20, we are very pleased to provide more details about our BigQuery Tiler which is now available as a beta.
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Ernesto Martínez Becerra and Javier de la Torre • Aug 3, 2020

CARTO & Google Cloud Announce Partnership

Since Google Maps was launched over 15 years ago, Google has become a leader in location. Today over 1 billion people use their services every month, and with vast amounts ...
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Javier de la Torre, Miguel Álvarez, and Dan Rushton • Jun 19, 2020

How to use COVID-19 Public Data in Spatial Analysis

For the past few months we have been making our platform freely available for those working on COVID-19 analysis, regularly adding public data sets from a wide range of pro...
Spatial Data
Javier de la Torre, Javier Pérez Trufero, and Alejandro Polvillo • Apr 17, 2020

Open Data on COVID-19 Now Available in Data Observatory

It seems already like an eternity since the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. Now, its related disease, COVID-19, has turned int...
Spatial Data
Javier de la Torre and Giulia Carella • Mar 13, 2020

Analyzing the Impact of Coronavirus on Meetups

Meetup is the most popular platform to organize community events. With more than 40 million members and 320,000 Meetup groups, the site facilitates 12,000 meetups per day a...
Data Visualization
Javier de la Torre • Nov 14, 2019

PostGIS Day: A future, post GIS

Yesterday was GIS day, but here at CARTO, we are even more excited to celebrate PostGIS day today, for two reasons: PostGIS is the name of the beloved database system behin...
Spatial Data
Javier de la Torre • Oct 25, 2019

New spatial functions in BigQuery, starting with Uber H3-js

As you may have seen in last week’s announcement, we are now working very closely with the Google BigQuery team to support the creation of a next generation spatial data in...
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Javier de la Torre • Oct 16, 2019

CARTO's Data Observatory 2.0, now powered by Google BigQuery

Today, at the Spatial Data Science Conference, we presented the recently launched Data Observatory 2.0 (DO). A new platform to discover and consume location data for spatia...
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Javier de la Torre and Rafa de la Torre • Sep 25, 2019

Live Connections to Remote Databases with Federated Tables

Getting your data connected is usually the first step in working with the CARTO platform. That data might be in files, databases, URLs, services, etc. The options are numer...
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Javier de la Torre • Jan 15, 2019

Introducing our new CEO: Luis Sanz

I am pleased to announce that we have appointed Luis Sanz as CARTO’s new CEO, effective immediately.
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Javier de la Torre • Jan 16, 2018

Partnering with Mapbox: A New Stack for Location Intelligence

Today we are excited to announce a new partnership with Mapbox that better integrates each company’s services with one another. For some time customers have requested this ...
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Javier de la Torre • Jan 12, 2018

Using Mapbox Vector Tiles in CARTO for Maps & Location Apps

Vector tiles are the building blocks for maps and location applications that need to quickly create smooth interactive experiences. When analyzing and visualizing a lot of ...
Core Tech
Javier de la Torre • Oct 30, 2017

CARTO brings geospatial data and analytics to Salesforce Einstein Analytics

Traditional sales analytics tools have made location-based decisions difficult, but these capabilities are becoming more important for companies looking to remain competiti...
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Javier de la Torre • Nov 10, 2016

Get the plan you need, for the uses you want

CARTO values unique users and the distinct uses of our platform, Builder and Engine. As a whole, our product is comprised of Builder—a web interface to interact with data, ...
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Javier de la Torre • Jul 7, 2016

Introducing CARTO Builder: A new way to analyze and visualize location data

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Javier de la Torre • Jun 23, 2016

Connecting Esri and CARTO Now Together for Everyone

We will be in San Diego next week for the 2016 Esri User Conference. To hit the ground running, we are scheduling meetings to show off our latest technology, as well as hos...
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Javier de la Torre • Apr 21, 2016

Partnering with Mapzen to provide next-generation Location Data Services

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Javier de la Torre • Apr 18, 2016

CartoDB is going to Japan with Pacific Spatial and OSGeo Japan

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Javier de la Torre • Feb 17, 2016

Welcome Nutiteq to the CARTO family!

We are pleased to announce that CARTO has acquired Nutiteq, a pioneer in native mobile mapping. Nutiteq joins us with more than 8 years of experience developing mobile appl...
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Javier de la Torre • Dec 10, 2015

Introducing Anthony Deighton to the CartoDB Family!

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Javier de la Torre • Sep 10, 2015

Announcing our $23M Series B round

We are excited to announce the close of $23 million in Series B financing to expand CartoDB’s mission, enabling anyone to map their world’s data and leverage the power of l...
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Javier de la Torre • Sep 11, 2014

Good news for the CartoDB community

Yesterday we announced a significant milestone for this company: we have partnered with EarlyBird, Vitamina K, and Kibo Ventures to take CartoDB to a new level.
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