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Could these location-based bus improvements fix NYC transit woes?
The opportunity for New York City’s bus system has never been greater. As its sibling system, the subway, enters a declared state of emergency, the NYC bus system could hel...
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Map of the Month: Landmine Removal in Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked disputed territory in the South Caucasus, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union...
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How to Use Spatial Analysis In Your Site Planning Process
If you’ve ever been part of a new development project for a store or building, you know how many factors go into making decisions about physical location.
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80 Data Visualization Examples Using Location Data and Maps
As the importance of location data continues to grow so do the ways you can visualize this information. We’ve scoured the web in search of data visualizations showing the v...
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A Map of Where People Went After the NYC Pride Parade
Each year, New York City celebrates Pride Month with a large procession down 5th Avenue, passing by the Stonewall Inn, the site of a police raid in 1969 that launched the g...
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The Reason Amazon Bought Whole Foods That No One Is Talking About
If Amazon’s planned [$14 billion acquisition of Whole Foods] goes through, it could radically change the grocery industry. Many news outlets have speculated why Amazon migh...
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3 Retailers Proving Brick and Mortar Isn't Dead
You’ve probably seen the headline a dozen times: “[big box store] closes [large number] of Stores Nationwide.”
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How Location Data is Helping Solve Water Insecurity
Nonprofits and humanitarian relief agencies are using location data to tackle some of the most challenging problems in the world today: from housing discrimination, to clim...
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4 Simple Steps Enigma Took to Turn Public Data into Insight
There is a nearly endless supply of open data ready for businesses and nonprofits to use. The challenge is that creating something useful with that data is not always easy....
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A Really Good Guide on Location Intelligence Implementation
Most organizations are replete with data and data sources. What to do with that data for better business outcomes is not simply a question of database management, but one o...
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3 Businesses See More Green After Going Green
Earth Day, an annual event rallying support for environmental protection, will take place this Saturday, and marks the event’s forty-seventh anniversary. A growing environm...
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40 Brilliant Open Data Projects And How They're Redefining Smart Cities in 2017
In honor of New York City’s Open Data Week 2017 we’ve compiled a resource featuring 40 smart, data-driven projects reminding us of open data’s value.
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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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