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Real-time updated map of addresses inside LA wildfires perimeter
As wildfires continue to rage in Ventura and LA County, residents may be wondering what addresses are most affected. This map, created by Mamata Akella (this morning!), sho...
Data Visualization -
How Insurance Uses Location Data to Prepare for Natural Disasters
Insurance providers must move quickly to take advantage of the location data available to them. Confronted with a world with more extreme weather than ever before, Location...
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A new look for Positron and Dark Matter basemaps
Today, we are excited to share the new and enhanced versions of our signature basemaps, Positron and Dark Matter.
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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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Building A Real Estate Investment Strategy With Location Intelligence
When evaluating new real estate investment opportunities to grow your portfolio or doing your due diligence on an existing investment, the importance of doing your homework...
Data Visualization -
3 Spatial Data Science Trends to Watch in 2018
The demand for data scientists to understand and use geospatial analysis in their process has led to new trends and innovations in the data science field.
Spatial Data -
Happy PostGIS day!
At CARTO we <3 PostGIS. And we love PostGIS not only because it’s a fully-fledged geospatial analytics engine but because being at the roots of our technology it helps u...
Core Tech -
5 Popular Thematic Map Types and Techniques for Spatial Data
As our understanding of Location Intelligence and its applications across the public and private sector grows, thematic maps are becoming a more critical part of any profes...
Data Visualization -
What is Supply Chain Network Design and How Does It Work?
Supply chains are a critical, and often unnoticed, part of our everyday lives. Almost everything that we purchase in a store comes to us as a part of a supply chain and man...
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What We Learned At NACIS 2017
The North American Cartographic Information Society’s annual meeting took place a few weeks ago in Montreal, Canada. It’s an important conference for GIS professionals, whe...
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PostGIS Performance Profiling
More and more CARTO users are asking to render more and more data onto maps, and they want to see the results on their screen quickly. In order to get a whole map drawn in ...
Core Tech -
The Dreamforce 2017 Sessions We're Most Excited About
Several members of the CARTO team are packing up next week and heading to Dreamforce, Salesforce’s 140,000+ person conference on sales and customer success.
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