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Use NASA's real-time satellite imagery as your basemaps in CARTO
There is no doubt that we live on an ever-changing planet. Earth Observation provides a great tool to monitor and track these changes, ranging from climate transformations ...
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Map Excel Data
Excel spreadsheets have to be one of the most used data storage formats used in the office today. Whether you need to quickly look at your data in rows and columns, or if y...
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Using CartoDB to tell stories in open data
Today we have a guest blogpost up on the OKCon blog about telling stories with open data. The post talks a bit about our recent work with the PLUTO data. We wrote the post ...
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Got files? We've got a Import API
We often get questions and support tickets from people that want to upload files to CartoDB without having to do it through the browser. For these people, we needed a file ...
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Read AND write to CARTO with the Leaflet.draw plugin
A handful of developers using CARTO have begun to build tools that incorporate CARTO data and the Leaflet.draw plugin. It is a pretty neat combination of tools, that allow ...
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Guest Post: CartoDB Goes Native Mobile Interactive with Nutiteq's Android SDK
We are always working to improve CartoDB, so we’re thrilled when we find great partners to help us take the platform even further faster for our users. Today we’re excited ...
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CARTO makes D3 maps a breeze
Anybody who loves maps and data can’t help but notice all the beautiful visualizations people are making with D3 right now. Huge thanks to Mike Bostock for such a cool tech...
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Visualizing the Peter Jackson's the Hobbit : Film Locations
Maps are a wonderful way to tell stories, and with today’s release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we felt a visualization of the film’s locations in New Zealand woul...
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Visualizing 50 Years of Rolling Stones Concerts
The Stones passed the half-centuty mark as a band this year. An incredible achievement for an incredible band. They also happen to be one of the most prolific touring bands...
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How to build real-time, cross-device electoral maps
With US Presidential Election just around the corner, we want to show you how to use CartoDB to power dynamic, fully scalable, cross-device maps that update instantly, with...
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Getting creative with CartoDB
The combination of styling with SQL on CartoDB gives a surprising range of freedom to create data visualizations. I find myself often thinking about creative solutions to m...
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