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New Academy Lesson: How to Choose Map Colors
Do you want to go beyond using default color schemes for your map, but don’t know where to start? Or do you need to make your map more legible, but aren’t sure how? We’ll s...
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Advanced Map Styling Techniques
Recently, I was working with an utility company that wanted to use CARTO as a web mapping platform replacement for the way they currently generate maps of their physical in...
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NYC, the City That Never Sleeps
In 1905, the New York Times declared New York City, “the noisiest city on Earth.” Little has seemingly changed with hundreds of thousands of noise complaints logged with th...
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Guest post: Visualize a year of Citi Bike rides with Kimono and CartoDB
Today we are excited to bring you a guest post from our friends at KimonoLabs. If you aren’t familiar with Kimono, they bring a set of tools that enable you to create APIs ...
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Visualizing the Peter Jackson's the Hobbit : Film Locations
Maps are a wonderful way to tell stories, and with today’s release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we felt a visualization of the film’s locations in New Zealand woul...
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Visualizing 50 Years of Rolling Stones Concerts
The Stones passed the half-centuty mark as a band this year. An incredible achievement for an incredible band. They also happen to be one of the most prolific touring bands...
Cartography & Visualization
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.
Core Tech
