Several members of the CARTO team are packing up next week and heading to Dreamforce, Salesforce’s 140,000+ person conference on sales and customer success.

The basemap is the unsung hero of cartography.

Good maps lie at the heart of any location application. When analyzing data on maps, proper design can be the difference between interesting and insightful. But effective design is easier said than done.

If you are a student developer looking to work with cutting-edge location intelligence tools, then do we have good news for you!

Deeply understanding and visually exploring the complex data of a city is key to understanding how to make timely and effective decisions. It is essential to how we improve the lives and well-being of residents. Data visualization allows for insights into the progress being made, the challenges that remain, and...

When working with maps and analysis, it’s essential to have effective control over the data layer hierarchy and the analysis attached. In CARTO Builder, managing your layers and analytical workflows has never been easier thanks to our intuitive layer list and analysis nodes. When working with more than one dataset,...

With the incredibly powerful analytical capabilities of CARTO Builder, managing analytical workflows has never been more important. This is why we’ve created fast, easy, and functional ways of creating and understanding analysis. The layer list makes it easy to not only see the hierarchy of your layers, but also the...

Working with data can sometimes be a daunting task. Luckily, CARTO Builder’s analysis interface makes it easier than ever to perform data transformation, such as filtering, like never before. Filtering a dataset by column value can be done in just a few simple steps directly from CARTO Builder’s layer list...

Last week CARTO had the honor of being invited by UNICEF’s Knowledge Management & Implementation Research Unit to discuss global health issues and showcase how CARTO’s technology can help improve vaccination rates for children across the world.

At CARTO we take pride in empowering the next generation of researchers and data-lovers to create projects that push the boundaries of how we understand our world. Recently, we shared our technology with Hannan Abid and Julian Moulton, two students transcribing, cleaning, and digitizing data at the American Museum of...

Open data is an important part of how we understand both local and global economies, how we discover new possibilities, and how we identify the key insights within data can reveal tremendous things about the world, continuing to transform it in the years and decades to come. Our friends at...

At CARTO, we have a deep passion for sharing knowledge and discovering new insights through spatial analysis and visualization. With the release of our CARTO Builder and the ever deepening work of our team, we’re excited to share with the world some of the game-changing innovations we’re bringing to the...

It’s that time of year again! As professionals and technology lovers from across the world flock to Austin, TX for what has become the largest and most prolific event in music, film, and interactive technology, at CARTO we’re focused in on next year’s event to bring our brand of innovation...

Each year the open source geo-lovers at CARTO (which is pretty much everyone) sets their sights to FOSS4G as a landmark event to not only share how we’re impacting the world of free and open source software for geospatial, but to also connect and learn with our fellow geo-aficionados. This...

The Zika virus has been around for over 50 years but it wasn’t until this year that the World Health Organization declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, as the virus continues to spread to new areas.

CartoDB is always happy to support journalists and researchers in their efforts to tell stories through data analysis and visualization. In the past we’ve hosted events like, GeoJourNews for journalists and new media to showcase their work, share lessons learned, and discuss new trends in data journalism. Last week, the...

It’s that time of year again! As hoards of geospatial professionals migrate to the Esri User Conference in San Diego this year, we at CartoDB are getting ready once again to celebrate the geospatial industry and foster a culture of location analysis that looks towards the future. The truth is,...

Last week we were excited to sponsor for the first time, Data Stories, a podcast on data visualization. We are big fans of the podcast and are very proud to support their work. Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner have worked over the years to create a series of shows that...

Coast to coast, Austin to Detroit, Madrid to the UK – CartoDB is traversing the globe and making waves in the world of location intelligence. This June, these are the events you must attend.

Earlier this week we released the Data Observatory. We built the Data Observatory because we wanted easier to find and easier to use geospatial data. More than that, we wanted to put in place the foundation for some things we have in store for the future (more on that in my next blog post). We are all a bunch of map and data nerds, so this is a project that really came from our hearts. While the Data Observatory is far from complete, we built it so it could expand rapidly into new areas of data, the first release is enough to have us tearing up a bit. We think it has the power to change the way you analyze location data and potentially the way you think about maps entirely.

This is going to sound extreme, but without open source software there would be no internet as we know it. That’s right. Everyday we utilize a technology built on collaborative software that only gets better and more powerful the more open and secure it becomes. Each year a conference celebrating...

##Disaster requires quick action! Maps are an incredibly powerful tool for humanitarian crisis response. One of the most compelling phenomena in recent times has emerged from global communi ties committed to solving some of the many challenges that arise from timely humanitarian response. Ground-breaking initiatives such as OpenStreetMap have reframed...

Mapping and data analysis are shaping the ways in which news and important stories are shared and understood. A quick browse of our journalism and new media gallery truly places into perspective the emerging practice of data-driven journalism. At the core of data-journalism, we at CartoDB are building a culture...

CartoDB is very excited about the upcoming FOSS4G-NA conference! We’ve given sessions at the conference for the last 2 years and hope 2016 won’t be an exception. Held in Raleigh, North Carolina from May 2-5, this is the premiere conference for free, open source software designed for geospatial in North...

Earlier this year we announced a pizza-love fueled commitment to supporting our worldwide Maptime communities. From our very own Maptime meetup in New York City, we found that the best way to inspire great work and foster community was by coming together around the workspace table and whirring laptops to...

Here at CartoDB we are always looking for new ways to enable our educational communities. From our commitment to Education and Research in the Classroom to our popular Educator’s Nights and workshops at universities, we’re working hard to spark new ideas in geospatial visualization and analysis across all professional fields....

About a month ago, we announced Insight, our first ever data and design competition in conjunction with Measure, a New York City exhibit by Storefront for Art and Architecture. With the competition close at the end of last month, we wanted to thank all of the teams who submitted projects...

CartoDB prides itself on helping empower organizations and people to achieve great things and make the world a better place. Our ever-growing climate and non-profit grants have provided innovative organizations with tools and infrastructure to have meaningful impact from the neighborhood all the way up to the world.

There have been many exciting happenings this month at CartoDB. From growing our partnership with Code for America, to our upcoming CartoCamp at NYU it’s been a busy week for our community! Earlier this month we also announced Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront...

As our first ever data and design competition ramps up, we at CartoDB and Storefront for Art and Architecture are working hard to make both the competition and the Measure exhibit a big success with our all-star panel of competition judges! In case you’ve been under a rock the past...

We love our community of mappers, designers, and data-afficionados. Which is why CartoDB is proud to announce: Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront for Art and Architecture exhibit in New York City!

CartoDB has always been a big advocate of civic technology. From our partnerships with organizations such as Code for America and rapidly growing grant programs for startups, climate action, and non-profits, we’re always looking for ways to help civic tech organizations and companies excel at what they do best. Recently,...

Last week CartoDB had the pleasure of speaking with entrepreneur and real estate map guru Dan (Vadim) Marusin. He is the founder of EstateBlock, a Vancouver Canada based real estate search engine startup powered by CartoDB! Dan discovered CartoDB out of a need to provide easily accessible, high quality, data-secure...

CartoDB has always been committed to empowering communities, people, and organizations that seek to use mapping and data for civic prosperity and growth. From our long-running climate and non profit grants, to sponsoring mapping meetups across the country, we are always looking for new ways to support efforts that re-think...

In the high-speed world of data journalism it’s always important to stay on top of the latest story. Being able to quickly and beautifully visualize information in creative ways is essential! That’s why our team here at CartoDB is committed to not only providing the go-to world-class journalism mapping tool,...

As you may know, last week the United Nations Headquarters in New York City hosted the monumental State of The Map US Conference, and for a few days, the CartoDB team and map lovers from around the world got together for some incredible events and happenings across the city! You...

Supporting our mapping communities around the world is a big slice of what CartoDB is all about. We feel that it’s our fellow mappers and GIS communities that have helped shape what CartoDB is today. This is why a few months back CartoDB had the pleasure of buying pizza for...

At CartoDB we love our mapping communities. With Maptime being one of our favorite gatherings - and a catalyzer of mapping culture not only in CartoDB’s home of New York City, but across the world - We felt it was time to give a big pizza slice shaped thank you...

Making maps can be a challenge. Whether you’re just getting started with the CARTO Editor or you’re a seasoned geo-spatial developer using the CARTO Platform, The tools that CARTO offers allows for incredible versatility in how data is visualized, analyzed and made interactive. Just take a look at some of...

With this third installment of our Developer Interview series, we welcome Fedor Baart to join the discussion about how scientists and developers using CartoDB for research and geospatial science!

As many know, CartoDB’s commitment to elevating efforts in conservation, climate change, and the environment has shaped our practice and given way to many exciting mapping projects such as the creative and impressive Carbon Calculator and the Global Forest Watch Map that allows users to monitor deforestation in real time.