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.
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...
NewsToday 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...
TechnologyAs 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...
NewsTrue 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.
NewsAt 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...
NewsToday 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...
NewsOn 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 CasesExciting 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...
NewsAt 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 CasesAs 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 CasesGeography 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 DataThis 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 ...
NewsMap 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 (...
NewsAs 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.
NewsSince 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 ...
NewsFor 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 DataIt 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 DataMeetup 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 VisualizationYesterday 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 DataAs 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...
NewsToday, 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...
NewsGetting 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...
NewsI am pleased to announce that we have appointed Luis Sanz as CARTO’s new CEO, effective immediately.
NewsToday 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 ...
NewsVector 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 TechTraditional sales analytics tools have made location-based decisions difficult, but these capabilities are becoming more important for companies looking to remain competiti...
NewsCARTO 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, ...
NewsWe 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...
NewsWe 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...
NewsWe 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...
NewsYesterday 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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