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CARTO & Databricks: Bringing Spatial Analysis to the Lakehouse Platform
True to our mission of unlocking spatial analytics in the cloud, today we are thrilled to announce the beta launch of the CARTO Spatial Extension for Databricks.
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Geographically weighted regression for spatial analysis in BigQuery
Although leading data warehouses already offer some level of support for spatial data, they can usually only work with core spatial functionalities and lack some of the adv...
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How to Create React Apps with Maps & Location Data
Organizations use spatial analytics to solve a variety of business problems, from deciding where to open a new store or fulfillment center to optimizing delivery routes. To...
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Understanding the Impact of Tree Equity in Chicago
The Healthy Regions + Policy Lab (or HeRoP) at the University of Chicago integrates innovative GIScience, public health, and statistical approaches to explore, understand, ...
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Announcing CARTO Spatial Extension for Snowflake
At CARTO, our mission is to help customers unlock spatial analytics in the cloud, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of the CARTO Spatial Extensi...
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Fuel Shortage UK Maps & What Location Data Can Tell Us
In September 2021 many petrol stations across the UK ran out of fuel. Panic buying was attributed to media reports of a leaked government briefing outlining the shortage of...
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CARTO presenting at GEO Business 2021, UK’s largest geospatial event
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be attending and presenting at this year’s GEO Business 2021, taking place on November 24 - 25 at ExCeL London. GEO Business is the UK’...
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Explore Open Buildings with CARTO Spatial Extension for BigQuery
Google recently released the Open Buildings dataset, including 516 million building footprints covering 64% of the African continent. Each building is described as a polygo...
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Announcing the Spatial Data Scientist of the Year 2021
What a week it has been! Thousands of you attended this year’s Spatial Data Science Conference 2021 (#SDSC21), featuring 53 speakers across 35 interactive talks, workshops,...
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Today Thousands of Spatial Leaders Gather for #SDSC21
Starting today, the Spatial Data Science Conference Online 2021 (#SDSC21) is bringing together thousands of data scientists, developers, academics, and business leaders for...
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PMI, Litterati, & Clear Channel Win Geospatial Excellence Awards
Initiated in 2007, Geospatial World Awards are internationally-acclaimed premium awards recognizing exemplary practices in the global geospatial industry. With the ceremony...
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CARTO Spatial Features, now with global urbanity, climatology, & elevation data
In late 2020, we released our first derivative data product, CARTO Spatial Features, providing global demographic data and Point of Interest (POI) aggregations by category....
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