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Mobile Data 101: 15 Questions to Answer Using Mobile Data
Understanding the patterns and trends in the everyday actions of citizens, workers, or consumers is key to answering complex business questions. 90% of smartphone users kee...
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Survivalists & Selectionists: How CPGs Understand Demographic Divides Through Location
Changing consumer habits are rocking the boat for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. In developed markets, including the United States and Great Britain, limited p...
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Urban Analytics: A 21st Century Introduction to Spatial Analytics
The proliferation of analytics is the result of attempts to manage, calculate, and determine the best course of action based on partial and/or incomplete data. And while an...
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Global Partnership: Democratizing Data & Location Intelligence for Development
As nations, NGOs, and development organizations from around the world strive to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, they need to be data-driven and interconnect...
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Mobile Data 101: Challenges and Best Practices
When seeking a deeper understanding of behavioral patterns and trends among customers, citizens, and cities, mobile data is a powerful tool.
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Patching Plain PostgreSQL for Parallel PostGIS Plans
CARTO users want to see maps drawn quickly, and drawing maps quickly means rendering every geometry in a table to an output format. By deploying the latest version of Postg...
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Map of the Month: Pi Project - Connecting the World Through Art
Calling the Pi Project ambitious is an understatement.
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Visualizing the Olympics: Top Maps and Data Visualizations from Pyeongchang
On Friday, February 9th, the 2018 Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Featuring athletes from 92 countries around the world, this Winter Games prov...
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CARTO's Use of Foreign Data Wrappers
PostgreSQL is packed full of under-appreciated features (pg_trgm, full-text search, logical replication, ranges, to name a few) but I’d like to highlight one feature tha...
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Data Through Design Opening Reception: Kicking-Off NYC Open Data Week 2018 in Style
“Open data,” as a core value, is easy to endorse, but it is not always so easy to practice. This problem inspired last year’s NYC Open Data Week, a collaboration between NY...
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CARTO Core Team and 5x
CARTO is open source, and is built on core open source components, but historically most of the code we have written has been in the “CARTO” parts, and we have used the cor...
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ETL into CARTO with ogr2ogr
The default CARTO data importer is a pretty convenient way to quickly get data into the platform, but for enterprises setting up automated update it has some limitations:
Core Tech
