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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...
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Mapping Your Salesforce Data: CARTO in Einstein Analytics
With nearly 20% of the world’s total CRM market share and the ability to call 80% of all Fortune 500s customers, Salesforce is the engine powering a dramatically significan...
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PostGIS Day: A future, post GIS
Yesterday was GIS day, but here at CARTO, we are even more excited to celebrate PostGIS day today, for two reasons: PostGIS is the name of the beloved database system behin...
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Data Events to Enjoy - Winter 2019
Winter doesn’t need to be a season where you stay at home under your blanket, hiding from the dark and cold outside. Rather, these months are perfect for heading out to enj...
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Spatial Analysis for Tourism in Partnership with Andorra
With the goal of providing deeper spatial insight into the nature of one of the country’s most crucial economic drivers, CARTO is excited to be joining in partnership with ...
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Equal Earth Projection in CARTO!
The recent release of PostGIS 3.0 brings an updated spatial reference system table that includes over 8000 projections out-of-the-box. We’re happy to report that the Equal ...
Cartography & Visualization
