Posts by Miguel Álvarez
Lead Data Scientist at CARTO.
Lead Data Scientist at CARTO.
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
Sales forecasting and revenue prediction have become increasingly important to retailers during the past two years as store owners have had to rapidly react to evolving con...
Spatial Data
In September 2021 many petrol stations across the UK ran out of fuel. Panic buying was attributed to media reports of a leaked government briefing outlining the shortage of...
Use Cases
Road traffic injuries are among the ten leading causes of death worldwide and they are the main cause of death among young adults aged 15-29 years [1]. In addition to the t...
Spatial Data
Recent promising news regarding COVID-19 vaccine development from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, & AstraZeneca/Oxford University has given the world a glimmer of hope in the...
Spatial Data
As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt across all industries, particularly retail, there are both ongoing record declines as well as some encouraging s...
Spatial Data
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
Supply chains are a critical part of our everyday lives, even more so as we move towards the new normal. The current situation has put a lot of pressure on food and pharmac...
Spatial Data
Since the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus made its first appearance in China in late 2019, it has kept spreading day by day all over the world; responsible for over a million ca...
Spatial Data
Utilities industry players are finding themselves under unprecedented pressure due to rising customer churn and increasing competition. Both global market deregulation and ...
Data Science
In recent years, the number of brick-and-mortar stores facing closure has swelled. In the retail sector, this phenomenon has come to be known as the retail apocalypse, but ...
Data Science
Catchment areas (i.e. trade areas) are the geographic areas from which retailers, wholesalers, and other commercial locations draw most of their business. Calculating them ...
Data Science
In recent years we have seen the emergence of numerous marketplace platforms connecting customers to a wide variety of products and services. Clear examples of this are Ube...
Spatial Data
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