Global Partnership: Democratizing Data & Location Intelligence for Development
As nations, NGOs, and development organizations from around the world strive to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, they need to be data-driven and interconnect...
Location Intelligence
Mobile Data 101: Challenges and Best Practices
When seeking a deeper understanding of behavioral patterns and trends among customers, citizens, and cities, mobile data is a powerful tool.
Location Intelligence
Patching Plain PostgreSQL for Parallel PostGIS Plans
CARTO users want to see maps drawn quickly, and drawing maps quickly means rendering every geometry in a table to an output format. By deploying the latest version of Postg...
Core Tech
Map of the Month: Pi Project - Connecting the World Through Art
Calling the Pi Project ambitious is an understatement.
Location Intelligence
Visualizing the Olympics: Top Maps and Data Visualizations from Pyeongchang
On Friday, February 9th, the 2018 Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Featuring athletes from 92 countries around the world, this Winter Games prov...
App Development
CARTO's Use of Foreign Data Wrappers
PostgreSQL is packed full of under-appreciated features (pg_trgm, full-text search, logical replication, ranges, to name a few) but I’d like to highlight one feature tha...
Core Tech
Data Through Design Opening Reception: Kicking-Off NYC Open Data Week 2018 in Style
“Open data,” as a core value, is easy to endorse, but it is not always so easy to practice. This problem inspired last year’s NYC Open Data Week, a collaboration between NY...
News
CARTO Core Team and 5x
CARTO is open source, and is built on core open source components, but historically most of the code we have written has been in the “CARTO” parts, and we have used the cor...
Core Tech
ETL into CARTO with ogr2ogr
The default CARTO data importer is a pretty convenient way to quickly get data into the platform, but for enterprises setting up automated update it has some limitations:
Core Tech
Discover Location Intelligence with CARTO at MWC 2018
With over 100,000 attendees, the Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry, and the team at CARTO is excited to be joining the festivi...
Events
Map of the Month: Reach of CJ Marple’s Tweet
As a part of our Map of the Month series, we dive into a recent Twitter project and see how they use maps to engage with the Twitter community. On January 8th, CJ Marple, a...
Use Cases
How to use CARTO.js with React
The beta version of CARTO.js has been released at the end of last year and, as part of our testing program, we have created several proofs of concept with different framewo...
Core Tech
