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Geoprocessing with PostGIS - Part 1
CartoDB is built on top of PostGIS, the powerful add-on that turns PostgreSQL into a spatial database. Many popular Geoprocessing functions in GIS software can be done wit...
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Mapping Magic at the Eyeo Festival 2015
Early June was a grand month for conferences in the civic tech and mapping scene. Reviewing the online documentation for the Personal Democracy Forum, State of the Map, and...
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Advanced Mapping with the GDELT API + BigQuery
In the second addition of our series on clever mapping with GDELT data (see this post from last week), we wanted to take on some more advanced mapping techniques. Again, we...
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SOTMUS 2015 x CartoDB!
Just over the East River, from our Brooklyn office, State of the Map US 2015 kicked off at the United Nations headquarters with a weekend packed full of mapping oriented ta...
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Map of the Week: Making Rent
Property values are a persistent obsession for New Yorkers, as are the arbitrary constraints to dwelling well (dwelling? yes). Between navigating the rental quagmire of onl...
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GeoJourNews: To the Presses!
A short week after our conference celebrating news and maps, and a short month away from State of the Map, we wanted to write and wrap up some of the awesome of GeoJourNews...
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Take Flight with EBP and CartoDB for Europe's Green Week 2015
The [EuroBirdPortal] project is launching on June 5th in support of [Europe’s Green Week 2015]. The EBP project tackles the important task of ornithological research and co...
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Making Maps with GDELT + CartoDB
What would it look like to literally map the world’s news as it happens? What if you could reach across a growing fraction of the world’s news media every day, in real tim...
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The Spanish Regional and Municipal Elections: CartoDB Powers Real-Time Results
This past Sunday was election time again in Spain. Every four years people head to the polls for a regional and municipal election that often foreshadows what is to come in...
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