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How to Enrich Spatial Analysis on BigQuery, Snowflake, & more
Making access to spatial datasets as frictionless as possible is core to our mission of increasing the efficiency of analysts and data scientists working with spatial analy...
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How to build a revenue prediction model with CARTO & BigQuery
Sales forecasting and revenue prediction have become increasingly important to retailers during the past two years as store owners have had to rapidly react to evolving con...
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Explore Open Buildings with CARTO Spatial Extension for BigQuery
Google recently released the Open Buildings dataset, including 516 million building footprints covering 64% of the African continent. Each building is described as a polygo...
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CARTO Spatial Features, now with global urbanity, climatology, & elevation data
In late 2020, we released our first derivative data product, CARTO Spatial Features, providing global demographic data and Point of Interest (POI) aggregations by category....
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Uncovering Site Selection Strategies using Point of Interest Data
In the U.S. it can cost more than $1 million to open a McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Burger King, or Wendy’s restaurant. With such high levels associated with funding startup cost...
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CKDelta’s international human mobility data now available in CARTO
Over the past year the importance of human mobility data has increased significantly, not only as a means to analyze how to mitigate the spread of Covid; but more recently ...
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Making Human Mobility Models Fair, Inclusive, & Private
Late in 2020, we announced the creation of CARTO’s Scientific Committee to double down on our efforts to make the work of Spatial Data Scientists more productive and to hel...
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The Data Appeal Company POI & Sentiment Data now available in CARTO
What influences you the most when it comes to choosing where you might book a table at a restaurant? Is it simply a casual glance at the overall rating of the establishment...
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Delivering Geospatial Datasets on the Leading Cloud Data Platforms
The CARTO Data Observatory continues to evolve, giving Developers and Spatial Data Scientists unparalleled access to thousands of curated public and premium location based ...
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Building a Spatial Model to Classify Global Urbanity Levels
Decision-makers in the private and public sector are trying to understand our rapidly changing use of urban areas. The way we shop and travel; what we expect from our livin...
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How to Enrich POS Data to Analyze & Predict CPG Sales
Over the past year consumer behavior has changed significantly and many believe permanently. Last year U.S. CPG sales rose by 10.3% to $933 billion as consumers stocked up ...
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Foursquare POI & Foot Traffic Data now available in CARTO
As we enter into the second year of a COVID-19 era, consumers are continuing to shift how they move through the physical world with the physical location of businesses and ...
Spatial Data
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
