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Emerging Technology - Impacts on Location Intelligence
In tech, ten years can be an eternity. As of January 1st, 2010, nobody had ever posted to Instagram or sent a Snap. Nobody had taken an Uber or a Lyft. Alexa was a regular ...
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2019's Top Location Intelligence and Spatial Stories
As many of our readers know, every Tuesday morning, the CARTO 5 newsletter delivers the latest stories, tips and tricks, tech updates, and of course, cool maps from around ...
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Quantifying Park Use in American Cities: Spatial Models and Novel Measures
City agencies need measures for the services they deliver. Police and fire departments measure response time. Transportation and public works departments count potholes fil...
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Magnify your Analysis: Statistical Downscaling to Enhance Spatial Resolution
From understanding the dynamics of a business, to modelling physical and biological processes, scale matters. For spatial data, the concept of scale is closely related to t...
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Spanish Residential Real Estate data in CARTO with Tinsa Digital
New data streams and analysis techniques are critical for industry growth today. Yet until recently, the Real Estate sector suffered from a lack of appropriate analytical t...
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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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Site Planning for Market Coverage Optimization with Mobility Data
In recent years, the number of brick-and-mortar stores facing closure has swelled. In the retail sector, this phenomenon has come to be known as the retail apocalypse, but ...
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Spatial Solutions for the SDGs - COP25
COP (The United Nations Climate Change Conference) is coming to Madrid this year, taking place from December 2nd through December 13th. The event brings ten days in which p...
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Google Fusion Tables Turndown: An Alternative to Keep Mapping
You’ve probably heard that Google Fusion Tables and the Fusion Tables API will be turned down on December 3, 2019. This means embedded Fusion Tables visualizations (maps, c...
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Announcing #SDSC20 - Where Will You Join Us?
This past October, over 500 experts gathered at Columbia University for the 3rd annual Spatial Data Science Conference. The number of attendees - this was the largest audie...
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Calculating Catchment Areas with Human Mobility Data
Catchment areas (i.e. trade areas) are the geographic areas from which retailers, wholesalers, and other commercial locations draw most of their business. Calculating them ...
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Spatial Analysis: Private Equity's Secret Weapon
According to McKinsey, private equity’s (PE) net asset value has grown sevenfold since 2002, two times faster than global public equities. As a result, the number of PE bac...
Spatial Data
