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CartoDB maps recognized in FOSS4G Opening up the Map
Last week was the international FOSS4G meeting, one of our favorite conferences of the year. We told you a few weeks ago about some of the things we would be presenting at ...
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Mapping the life of Eric the seagull
Earlier this week we saw this amazing blog post from LifeWatch, where they map and analyze the life of a seagull. The blog post comes out of a project that tracks, in real-...
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Scalable election mapping done right
Last weekend there were elections in Germany, and that means a lot of mapping! Maps are a fundamental tool to explain voting results, differences between regions, possible ...
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Connecting HBase / Hadoop to CartoDB to visualize millions of species
In this guest blog, Tim Robertson describes how the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are building a dynamic density map with 0.5 billion tiles and supporting...
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Visualizing Melbourne’s Urban Forest
Today we are pleased to publish a post from Greg More, founder of OOM Creative. We saw some of the maps being created by Greg and his team for the City of Melbourne and kne...
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Visualizing NBA Finals tweets with CartoDB
In our second post this week about Twitter visualizations, we want to show you a cool visualization of tweets from throughout the NBA Finals visualized using CartoDB. Like ...
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Guest post - New online service, Who Represents Me: NYC
Today we hear from Steven Romalewski in a guest post detailing work on the “Who Represents Me: NYC” project. Steven has created several projects using CartoDB, generally fo...
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How CartoDB Powers Data Journalism
From its beginning, CartoDB been a powerful tool for journalists because it’s easy, flexible, scalable and open source. With this simple-to-use tool journalists everywhere ...
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Did you know you can do dynamic graphs with CartoDB? The Policy Climate Interactive project
Even though our blog gives a lot of attention to maps, CartoDB is a great tool for a lot more than just maps. We have seen in the past how the CartoDB APIs can do all sorts...
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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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