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Map of the Month: Bringing Smallholder Coffee Farmers out of Poverty
Since their beginnings in 14th century Turkey, coffee and coffeehouses have had a significant cultural impact, and green, unroasted coffee is one of the most traded agricul...
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Map of The Month: Trajectories of Neighbourhood Change
Socio-economic inequalities in the UK have remained persistently high over the last forty years. In the UK, the Gini coefficient, a commonly used measurement of inequality,...
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Map of The Month: Mapping Urban Transit in Santiago, Chile
Every now and then at CARTO we see incredible maps that tell important stories about cities, organizations, our world and people. We spotted this one from one of our users ...
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Faster, Stronger Smart Cities with Location Intelligence
The market for “Smart Cities” solutions is expected to more than double over the next five years, from $308bn in 2018 to $717bn in 2023. With growth driving greater innovat...
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A tale of two site planning strategies: Dunkin' Donuts versus Starbucks
Amid growing demand for quick service restaurant (QSR) properties, private and 1031 investors have started supplementing QSR evaluation metrics, like past sales performance...
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7 Maps Deriving New Insight From Mobile Data
More than 5 billion of the world’s 7.5 billion people own a cell phone. That ubiquitousness, coupled with their innate connectivity, makes mobile devices, and specifically ...
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Where Location Intelligence is driving innovation in geomarketing
Frustration with Facebook and Google’s online advertising “duopoly,” which accounted for 63% of all U.S. digital ad revenue in 2017, is leading digital marketers to search ...
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Modernizing Catchment Areas With Human Mobility Data
First used in the late 1800’s, Isochrone Maps, which depict the transport times in every direction from a distinct point, have long been an important component in the busin...
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How Vodafone & CARTO are providing Location Insights at MTV Music Week Bizkaia
Vodafone, one of the world’s leading telcos, will provide a series of pioneering solutions to optimize the management of MTV Music Week Bizkaia through advanced location an...
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Map of the Month: Displacement Alert Map 2.0
Founded in 1974, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development is a coalition of community groups that aims to ensure affordable and equitable housing and neighb...
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How Location Intelligence improves trade area coverage during retail mergers and acquisition
When Amazon announced its acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.1 billion dollars last year analysts speculated on what impact the “Amazon Effect” would have on grocery retail...
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Driving down distribution costs with Location Intelligence
The logistics industry is under increasing pressure thanks to rising costs, a shrinking labor force, and unrealistic customer expectations for priority deliveries. Even Ama...
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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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