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Retail Centre Data Exploration
Introduction If we asked you to picture a UK Retail Centre, what would come to mind? A bustling city centre boulevard or a quaint village high street? A sprawling out-of-to...
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Analyzing Sentiment & Footfall in Post-COVID Berlin
The Data Appeal Company’s Hannah Babineau - International Partnerships and Marketing Manager - guest blogs for CARTO!
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Cost of Living Crisis: Location Intelligence for Energy Efficiency
Read any news website in 2022 and there’s one phrase you can’t escape; the “cost of living crisis.” In the UK, living costs have been rising at their fastest rate in 30 yea...
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Spatial Data Monetization: A Quick Guide
Data monetization is a concept that we hear about more every day thanks to the increasing availability and variety of new business intelligence and data science platforms, ...
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Ghost Kitchens: Predictive Location Intelligence
If I asked you two or three years ago “Have you ever eaten food from a ghost kitchen?” you’d probably say no, or assumed I was talking about some sort of themed restaurant....
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How to Use Spatial Data to Create a Wildfire Risk Map
Wildfires can be detrimental to urban and rural areas, causing impacts in the form of injury, death and property loss. In fact, recent studies (here and here) have shown a ...
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Hexagons for Location Intelligence: Why, When & How?
You’ve probably seen hexagon grids on maps, and maybe even created some of your own. But have you ever stopped to think about why? This is CARTO’s definitive guide to hexag...
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Locating High Performing Retail Expansion Sites
When it comes to retail site selection applications, a common task consists of combining data from different sources to compare the characteristics of target locations and ...
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Understanding Retail Store Clusters with Local Outlier Factor Analysis
The retail landscape of a city is a complex and intricate one. A store’s success or failure depends heavily on its location; whether it is in a busy area, has a strong loca...
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Dark Store Site Selection: How Geospatial Data Can Help
In New York City, a number of companies such as 1520, Fridge No More, JOKR and BUYK have started offering local grocery delivery in 15 minutes from dark stores. As these se...
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Site Selection for Retailers Using Commercial Hotspot Analysis
One of the most impactful applications of spatial data and analytics is in the area of retail site selection. Retailers continue to evaluate their network of brick-and-mort...
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What You Should Know About Spatial SQL
Traditionally, spatial analysis has been behind the rest of the analytics world when it comes to features and capabilities. However, this is no longer the case due to the r...
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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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