How Tesco’s new discount brand could take on Aldi and Lidl with Location Intelligence
In today’s competitive market, established grocers are launching or acquiring discount brands to supplement revenue from other brand holdings.
Use Cases
Visualizing the spread of current fires with CARTO VL
Using synced data streams and CARTO VL, this map shows active fire perimeters and their growth since the beginning of July.
Cartography & Visualization
Beyond the Shapefile with File Geodatabase and GeoPackage
Anyone who has programmed geospatial software has eventually come to a conclusion about data formats: there is only one truly de facto standard for geospatial data, the sha...
Core Tech
Map of the Month: Where Are All The New Houses
For August’s Map of the Month, we are happy to feature Housing and Spatial Information Specialist Dan Cookson’s recent map of the 1.5 million new homes built in England ove...
Use Cases
Bulk CARTO Import Using COPY
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the constant growth in data sizes.
Data Processing
Measuring the Potential Impact of Amazon HQ2 on DC and Other Candidate Sites
We don’t yet know where it will end up, but Amazon HQ2 is going to vastly change the physical, societal, and economic landscape of the chosen site. For the candidate cities...
Use Cases
Predicting Collisions in NYC with New Data Streams and Spatial Analysis
Since GPS devices first appeared in cars in 1995, routing technology has been guiding us from Point A to Point B. In addition to its utility at the individual level, this n...
Spatial Data
Balancing Territories for Equity and Efficiency: A Field Sales Data Study
Sales territory management is a balancing act. Maintaining equity between salespeople, maximizing profitability, and minimizing costs are important and interconnected facto...
Data Visualization
Working with CARTO VL
In a previous post we introduced CARTO VL (beta), a new Javascript library for making vector-based, client-side visualizations. This new offering marks a significant advanc...
News
Announcing CARTO.js v4.1
It’s been three months since CARTO.js v4 reached the stable release state. Since then, we’ve been receiving very good feedback and researching what our customers are using ...
Core Tech
Drive Omnichannel Retail Success with Location Intelligence and New Data Streams
Rising eCommerce changed the retail game and continues to grow, with global online sales hitting $2.3 Trillion in 2017. With estimates that that figure will reach over $4 T...
Use Cases
Site Planning and Revenue Prediction: Optimizing Food Truck Locations in New York City
Advances made possible thanks to location data continue transforming business practices and processes when it comes to site planning. And now with insights from new data st...
Data Visualization
