Written by Steve Isaac on
Mapping Segregation - MIT's Atlas of Inequality
This week, The Atlas of Inequality, a joint project from MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group and the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, was lau...
Data Visualization
Written by Wenfei Xu on
Balancing Territories for Equity and Efficiency: A Field Sales Data Study
Sales territory management is a balancing act. Maintaining equity between salespeople, maximizing profitability, and minimizing costs are important and interconnected facto...
Data Visualization
Written by Peter Murray on
Site Planning and Revenue Prediction: Optimizing Food Truck Locations in New York City
Advances made possible thanks to location data continue transforming business practices and processes when it comes to site planning. And now with insights from new data st...
Data Visualization
Written by Steve Isaac on
Map of the Month: World Refugee Day
Whether due to natural disaster, climate change, violent conflict, persecution, or human rights violations, the displacement of people from their homes is reaching record h...
Data Visualization
Written by Steve Isaac on
Map of the Month: Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation Dashboard
Established in 2011 at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation is a project lead by t...
Data Visualization
Written by Steve Isaac on
50 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Geospatial, Data Science, and Visualization
Location Intelligence is a young field, forming at the intersection of new technologies and existing branches of knowledge. Twitter, a global sounding board for experts, is...
Data Visualization
Written by Steve Isaac on
Using Spatial Interaction Models to Predict Behaviors
Much of the data gathered by businesses, cities, and other organizations today contains at least one location component. This is essentially the basis for the existence of ...
Data Visualization
Written by Peter Murray on
Lessons Learned from Analyzing Over a Million Points of GPS Data
Data storytelling is the process of translating and presenting data analysis as meaningful information. Whether your data story promotes environmental conservation or a cha...
Data Visualization
Written by Devon Hopkins on
Real-time updated map of addresses inside LA wildfires perimeter
As wildfires continue to rage in Ventura and LA County, residents may be wondering what addresses are most affected. This map, created by Mamata Akella (this morning!), sho...
Data Visualization
Written by Steve Isaac on
Building A Real Estate Investment Strategy With Location Intelligence
When evaluating new real estate investment opportunities to grow your portfolio or doing your due diligence on an existing investment, the importance of doing your homework...
Data Visualization
Written by Steve Isaac on
5 Popular Thematic Map Types and Techniques for Spatial Data
As our understanding of Location Intelligence and its applications across the public and private sector grows, thematic maps are becoming a more critical part of any profes...
Data Visualization
Written by Devon Hopkins on
The Top Trends in Data Visualization for 2018
Data science is a rapidly growing career path and leaders across all industries, fields, and governments are putting their best minds to the task of harnessing the power of...
Data Visualization
Academy
Written by David Manzanares on
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...
Core Tech
Written by Matt Forrest on
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...
Spatial Data
Written by Andy Eschbacher on
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
CARTO Content
