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New Academy Course: Intermediate Map Design
Ever wonder which kind of map to make? Lesson 1 of our new Intermediate Map Design Map Academy course can help you decide!
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4 Ideas about the CartoDB Sync Tables functionality
Sync Tables are my favorites; having almost real-time maps without having to code a single line is something that I find amazing, even if this element has been a CartoDB st...
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Data Synchronization with OGR
CartoDB has an excellent and easy-to-use synced tables feature, that reads data from a public URL on a regular schedule and keeps an associated CartoDB table up-to-date. Ho...
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Nepal Coverage: Mapping Quake and Rescue
This past Saturday, an epic earthquake [devastated Nepal], resulting in a profound death toll and an impressive response from the [humanitarian] and [crisis-mapping communi...
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World Water Day: Mapping the spread of dams in the US
World Water Day was celebrated this past Sunday bringing attention to issues around water and sustainable development. Given current water use, the UN predicts the world wi...
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Happy World Radio Day!
World Radio Day was celebrated around the world last week in acknowledgment of the impact and importance of radio. We’re late to the party, but couldn’t think of a better w...
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Using NYPL MapWarper maps inside CartoDB
Note: The city of New York has a new website you can access at https://www.nycitylib.com/.
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CARTO: under the covers of Sin City Yelp reviews
Today, we’re going to look into publicly available data from Yelp, specifically, from Las Vegas. The data includes reviews on businesses, mostly restaurants, all around the...
Academy
Academy
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State of the Art Styling in CARTO VL
One of the most welcomed features of modern vector renderers is the performance advantage they bring to the table. While SVG and Canvas renderers have been developed in the...
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Find and fix underperforming retail markets with spatial data models
Although the landscape has drastically transformed over the last decade, retail analytics have not kept pace which is causing some retailers to close the wrong store locati...
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Introducing CARTOframes: A Python Interface for CARTO
It’s with a lot of pride that we’re releasing CARTOframes, a Python package for interacting with CARTO that’s built specifically with data scientists in mind.
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