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From clicks to bricks: the ecommerce companies who reverse engineered Site Selection
The story usually goes that brick-and-mortar retail chains were too slow in adapting to changing omnichannel landscape and have struggled to compete with e-commerce retaile...
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5 Priorities When Building a Location Intelligent Geomarketing Strategy
Just because your marketing strategy has a location component doesn’t mean that it’s Location Intelligent. With all of the data now available, organizations can understand ...
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COPY'ing with the Python SDK
Are you a python developer? Have you ever implemented some python code to produce, load or process some data and then wanted to upload it to CARTO? Here is how.
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How Tesco’s new discount brand could take on Aldi and Lidl with Location Intelligence
In today’s competitive market, established grocers are launching or acquiring discount brands to supplement revenue from other brand holdings.
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Visualizing the spread of current fires with CARTO VL
Using synced data streams and CARTO VL, this map shows active fire perimeters and their growth since the beginning of July.
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Beyond the Shapefile with File Geodatabase and GeoPackage
Anyone who has programmed geospatial software has eventually come to a conclusion about data formats: there is only one truly de facto standard for geospatial data, the sha...
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Map of the Month: Where Are All The New Houses
For August’s Map of the Month, we are happy to feature Housing and Spatial Information Specialist Dan Cookson’s recent map of the 1.5 million new homes built in England ove...
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Bulk CARTO Import Using COPY
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the constant growth in data sizes.
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Measuring the Potential Impact of Amazon HQ2 on DC and Other Candidate Sites
We don’t yet know where it will end up, but Amazon HQ2 is going to vastly change the physical, societal, and economic landscape of the chosen site. For the candidate cities...
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Predicting Collisions in NYC with New Data Streams and Spatial Analysis
Since GPS devices first appeared in cars in 1995, routing technology has been guiding us from Point A to Point B. In addition to its utility at the individual level, this n...
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Balancing Territories for Equity and Efficiency: A Field Sales Data Study
Sales territory management is a balancing act. Maintaining equity between salespeople, maximizing profitability, and minimizing costs are important and interconnected facto...
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Working with CARTO VL
In a previous post we introduced CARTO VL (beta), a new Javascript library for making vector-based, client-side visualizations. This new offering marks a significant advanc...
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