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Why Lockdown Matters: Exploring Human Mobility Data in Italy
The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, continues to cross borders. The epidemic, one of the biggest health crises in recen...
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US Social Determinants of Health Atlas - Map of the Month
Seeking an understanding of resident health based on the social factors within a neighborhood is not a new concept. But efforts to do so have long been overly simplistic, w...
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Data Visualization: The Spread of Coronavirus
The world is grappling with 2019-nCoV, the new Coronavirus spreading rapidly from the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province. The spreadi...
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Enrich Spatial Analysis with Landgrid's Nationwide Parcel Data
The map of America is divided and subdivided by hundreds of geographies and geometries at a wide variety of spatial scales. Some of these ever-present boundaries are famili...
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Tackling Customer Churn for Utilities with Spatial Modeling
Utilities industry players are finding themselves under unprecedented pressure due to rising customer churn and increasing competition. Both global market deregulation and ...
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Quantifying Park Use in American Cities: Spatial Models and Novel Measures
City agencies need measures for the services they deliver. Police and fire departments measure response time. Transportation and public works departments count potholes fil...
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Magnify your Analysis: Statistical Downscaling to Enhance Spatial Resolution
From understanding the dynamics of a business, to modelling physical and biological processes, scale matters. For spatial data, the concept of scale is closely related to t...
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Site Planning for Market Coverage Optimization with Mobility Data
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 ...
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Calculating Catchment Areas with Human Mobility Data
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
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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