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Things are moving fast in the mapping community #SOTMPDX
While still only three-quarters of the way through the year, 2012 will definitely be referenced as an important year for maps. In 2012 Google began charging for maps, ESRI ...
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A 120,000 feet freefall jump live map powered by CartoDB
When we read about Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground in ...
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ONA 12: A brief recap of the largest conference on online journalism
We had a great time last week at the Online News Association (ONA) annual conference, held in San Francisco. The world’s largest and most important conference on online jou...
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CartoDB backs your apps
From its very beginning, CartoDB has always been about making it easier for you to create map driven applications online.
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CartoDB, finalist in the 2012 Online Journalism Award
The Online News Association (ONA) and its academic partner, the School of Communication at the University of Miami, have announced the finalist for the 2012 Online Journali...
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Introducing the CartoDB Partners program
It is with great excitement that today we announce the public launch of the CartoDB partners program. Designed around the core needs of our current and prospective partner...
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Meet us at the International Open Government Data Conference
Putting data to work. That’s the next step of the open data movement and the theme of the second >International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC), starting today a...
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CartoDB proposal to the Knight News Challenge on data
Lots of things going on lately, we’re sorry we haven’t been able to update the blog. We’ve been attending interesting meetings here and there (Paris, Berlin, NY, Madrid”), ...
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CartoDB with a capital R
We love R users, and for a while now we have known that R users would probably love CartoDB. Getting the two together has taken some time and our commitment to that goal is...
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Balloon Mapping at the NY office
This week we’ve been experimenting with balloon mapping. Sense Maker (the team behind the Air Quality Egg and other projects) donated helium for the EcoHackNYC, and there w...
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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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