Posts by: Brittany Micek
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When your organization has locations all over the country, or world, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the progress of different targeted marketing campaigns. How you analyze all that data to determine the impact your organization is having (or not), makes all the difference in coordinating your next move.
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On April 13, Kobe Bryant played his last game of his 20-year career and, in great form, scored 60 points! Fans from Los Angeles, and the world over, were saddened to see the Black Mamba go, but his shooting record will live on in history, and now as a visualization. The LA Times mapped all of Kobe’s career shots using CartoDB and Python. The NBA data-driven visualization, charts every shot ever taken by Kobe - roughly 30,699 (data) points. How many points did he score in his lifetime? For those of you keeping count: 33,643 points.
So how exactly did the LA Times do it?
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CartoDB is really excited about the upcoming FOSS4G-Argentina! Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from April 5-9, and organized by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional of Argentina, CartoDB is a proud sponsor of this event that brings together decision makers from government institutions, IDERA members, universities, and state employees.
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What a year! We can still feel our presence in Barcelona after MWC 2016 and we keep coming back for more of that great energy. This time, Sergio Álvarez will be speaking at eFintech Show. CartoDB is one of the 30 most disruptive Fintech Startups selected by an expert group in a single event.
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Everything happens somewhere and CartoDB understands that location intelligence is everywhere. Where is the intersection of everything and everywhere? The simple answer is location intelligence, a market that CartoDB leads. We know that the location intelligence market is rapidly changing, with 80% of data having a location component, but only 10% of organizations and companies making use of it. CartoDB wants to change that.
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When Sade sang in ‘Smooth Operator’ – “Coast to coast, LA to Chicago” – she obviously hadn’t consulted a map.
For starters, L.A. - Los Angeles (not to be confused by the abbreviation of Louisiana, a southern U.S. state) is on the coast but what about Chicago? Only if you count the coast of Lake Michigan.
