Category: Events and conferences
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Next month CartoDB will be at Alteryx Inspire 2016 Conference, in San Diego, CA from June 6-9, as a platinum sponsor! Come visit booth #P2 to view our demos and learn how CartoDB can enhance your data workflows and analysis by providing even more value through location intelligence.
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In practice, journalist require the most trusty and reliable information to disseminate messages to the public. There is no better way to do that than by aggregating facts, or data, and analyzing and providing that analysis in the most accessible way possible. To do so, journalists across sectors and media need a technology that is compatible with the realities of the modern newsroom and provides data analysis on the go. CartoDB is that technology for the new media sector.
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Next week CartoDB will be at Qonnections 2016 as a Silver Sponsor for the first time. Come visit booth #801 to see our demos and learn how CartoDB can enhance your Qlik® business by providing even more value through location intelligence.
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This is going to sound extreme, but without open source software there would be no internet as we know it. That’s right. Everyday we utilize a technology built on collaborative software that only gets better and more powerful the more open and secure it becomes. Each year a conference celebrating the community and collaborative nature of open source tech happens and we couldn’t be more thrilled to take part.
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This year CartoDB will be at the Experience Fighters 2016 — the 3rd annual national meeting of Experience Design and Innovation at the Gran Teatro Principe Pío, here in Madrid, from May 11th to 12th! CartoDB is partnering
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Disaster requires quick action!
Maps are an incredibly powerful tool for humanitarian crisis response. One of the most compelling phenomena in recent times has emerged from global communi ties committed to solving some of the many challenges that arise from timely humanitarian response. Ground-breaking initiatives such as OpenStreetMap have reframed the ways in which we collectively generate spatial data. Even more importantly, organizations such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team are taking this culture of mapping to new heights by activating global communities to create previously impossible amounts of data for use in crisis and humanitarian response efforts.
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We are very excited to share details on our upcoming trip to Tokyo, organized together with OSGeo Japan and Pacific Spatial Solutions. Javier de la Torre and Jaime de Mora will be there for a week full of events and meetings.
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Mapping and data analysis are shaping the ways in which news and important stories are shared and understood. A quick browse of our journalism and new media gallery truly places into perspective the emerging practice of data-driven journalism. At the core of data-journalism, we at CartoDB are building a culture of geo-journalism underscored by our wonderful and active journalism community. Simultaneously, we strive to be at the cutting edge of data-journalism innovation with mapping and storytelling tools that take reporting to the next level, robust free accounts for IRE members, and engagement opportunities such as our Ambassador’s Program to help our journalism community get the most from their data. In short, we love data-journalists, we love our communities of storytelling mappers, and we’re celebrating our news-centric love with the Second Annual GeoJourNews Conference! - and you’re invited!
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Data velocity, variety, and volume are growing every second as more and more systems, from satellites, drones, to mobile devices, are designed for data gathering. We call this massive accumulation of data, Big Data. How we come to understand this collection of data can no longer be dependent on traditional forms of data analysis.
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CartoDB loves going new places and exploring new things. That’s why we take risks with our technology and platform, which ultimately provide new insights for you and for us! So it is not surprising that we will be heading to South Korea and Japan, as we work to expand all our markets. While we are there, please don’t hesitate to email us to arrange a meeting to discuss location intelligence and better data analysis.
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What is constantly increasing its volume, variety, and velocity and greatly effects your business’s bottom line if not properly utilized? Big Data!
At CartoDB we know just how important the amount of data that you collect, how you understand and analyze that data, and how that analysis turns into better cost effective decision making for your organization is.
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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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CartoDB happily moved to Bushwick from Williamsburg last September. Our office is in the middle of the industrial zone, with vast spaces around and graffiti art on the walls, and has ample room for up to 120 people where we love to host events, as well as the outdoor space in the summertime.
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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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Are you ready to look at maps in an unorthodox way and expand your cartographic horizons? The “Creative Cartography and Beers on March 11, in Paris, will do just that. And more importantly, seek to establish bridges between mapping and other fields - particularly creative coding and design.
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NSGIC’s Midyear Conference at the Lowe’s Annapolis Hotel In Annapolis, Maryland, is almost upon us and CartoDB is proud to be a first-year, bronze-level sponsor for this event and the annual conference in October.
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Mobile World Congress is fast approaching and we simply can’t wait to see all the great insights and hard work from the mobile community the world over.
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For two days, CartoDB will be at the Big Data Innovation - Las Vegas Summit! From January 28-29, we will participate in world-class presentations, panels, discussions, and networking. -
Mobile World Congress 2016 is now just a month away! We are happy to participate again in the world’s largest conference for the mobile industry, organized by GSMA. This global event in the mobile tech industry will take place in Barcelona at Fira Gran Via from February 22-25.
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CartoDB is very excited about the upcoming FOSS4G-NA conference!
We’ve given sessions at the conference for the last 2 years and hope 2016 won’t be an exception. Held in Raleigh, North Carolina from May 2-5, this is the premiere conference for free, open source software designed for geospatial in North America. Thousands of participants and hundreds of companies converge to share, demo, and talk about the things we love most.
In order to see us there we need your help!
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You don’t need a DeLorean to drive into the future of big data. Join Sergio Alvarez at El País con Tu Futuro in Madrid, where he is giving a talk titled
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Earlier this year we announced a pizza-love fueled commitment to supporting our worldwide Maptime communities. From our very own Maptime meetup in New York City, we found that the best way to inspire great work and foster community was by coming together around the workspace table and whirring laptops to enjoy delicious pizza and talk maps. We wanted to make this experience a worry-free staple in everyone’s Maptime meetup. This is why we committed to donating every pizza, for every Maptime, everywhere for a whole year, and we’re only half way done!
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On December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, the Madrid Municipal Congress Centre will host one of the most important events in the digital sector in Spain, the International Digital Content Forum (FICOD) 2015.
This year the attendees of the conference will be greeted with visualizations by CartoDB on a giant screen. CartoDB is proud to be hosting a booth at the event, along with talks and workshops — we hope to see you there!
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All over the world, tech giants and startups are reshaping the future of the digital economy. There is no doubt that the web is changing the way we do business. More and more, what happens in the digital space will affect how and what
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In the ever changing and rapidly growing ecosystems that define cities, the CartoDB platform has become imperative in enabling citizens, city agencies, and private industries to implement easily adaptable, real time enabled, and analytically robust data driven solutions.
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Looking for a digital service that offers an understanding of data complexity that leads to smart decisions, that make people’s lives easier? Looking for a conference that can offer all these things too?
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Howdy Mappers! CartoDB is happy to be a platinum sponsor of the Texas GIS Forum, the state’s premier conference for the geospatial professional community.
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With the recent discovery of water on Mars, what better time than now to think of fresh new ways of space exploration and data visualization, as well as how we view the third rock from the sun?
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The City of Las Vegas goes by many names: Sin City, the City of Lights - but this month it will take a new name - Data Metropolis! A whole new world of opportunity exists in your data and for three days, over 150 sessions, with 4000 Splunk enthusiasts you can raise the stakes. There are no limits to what you can do with the massive streams of machine data generated by your business systems and technology infrastructure. Enhance your knowledge of data-driven products and apps with an ace up your sleeve, and solve your most important data challenges. We’re going to Vegas, baby!
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The fall season provides a lot of fresh starts for many. The heat of summer and laxity subside as school semesters commence and vacations wind down. With these endings come new beginnings and the time for civic engagement has never been more rife.
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About a month ago, we announced Insight, our first ever data and design competition in conjunction with Measure, a New York City exhibit by Storefront for Art and Architecture. With the competition close at the end of last month, we wanted to thank all of the teams who submitted projects and emphasize that we were truly blown away by the quality of maps and insight shared by our stellar community. With over 60 incredible submissions, our team spent days deeply exploring each project and deliberating in selecting the top 5 most outstanding projects to enter into our finalists round. CartoDB is proud to announce our Insight: A data and design competition finalists for 2015!
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Join CartoDB, from September 15 - 17, as we immerse ourselves in the historic city of Stuttgart, Germany at the INTERGEO Conference and Trade Fair. We will spend three days engrossed in geodesy, geoinformation, land management, and cartography. INTERGEO has special space in the hearts of map scientist and offers extraordinary insights on open source GEO.
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Seoul, South Korea, the world’s most wired and number one ranked tech ready city is hosting one of the largest global gatherings focused on open source geospatial solutions. Next week CartoDB is attending FOSS4G for the second consecutive year.
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CartoDB began with just a dream and soon, we’ll put miles under our wings (or elephant ears) and cross the United States to experience the power of that vision. Our CEO Javier de la Torre, along with VP of Sales Alon Vernikov and EMEA Sales Director Jaime de Mora, will be attending Dreamforce in San Francisco from September 15-18.
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Late last month, we had the pleasure of hosting an event devoted to real-time data mapping, a common request among our community of cartographers and data journalists. For every election map, crisis tracker, or geo-reporting tool, there is a strong need for resources that support consistent data updates and we’re happy to oblige with sync tables as a service in CartoDB.
This event was a kickoff to CartoCamps, a workshop series we’re launching to provide thematic bootcamps that train these common mapping concerns. Read on to learn more and sign-up for future events!
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I remember this one time at band camp, it seemed things were going so well. It was a wet, hot, good ol’ American summer. Possibly the only thing missing was a proper web mapping class, appropriately scheduled after friendship bracelet making class.
So in the spirit of awesome summer camps, last week we held CartoCamp Edu, a day full of discussions, presentations, and workshops in collaboration with talented educators to think through the uses of web mapping in the classroom.
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There have been many exciting happenings this month at CartoDB. From growing our partnership with Code for America, to our upcoming CartoCamp at NYU it’s been a busy week for our community! Earlier this month we also announced Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront for Art and Architecture exhibit in New York City. We have had a lot of insightful projects already submitted, and with the August 31st deadline just short of two weeks away, we want to inspire our world of map makers to submit some great maps and creative projects!
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Once a year the worlds of tech and music converge in a celebration of all things cool, hip, and innovative. South by Southwest is one of the most important tech events in the United States. Last year, this popular festival received more than 3,500 entries - making panel selection a really competitive process.
It is with great pleasure that CartoDB announces our three submitted panels for SXSW Interactive PanelPicker!
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As our first ever data and design competition ramps up, we at CartoDB and Storefront for Art and Architecture are working hard to make both the competition and the Measure exhibit a big success with our all-star panel of competition judges!
In case you’ve been under a rock the past week, CartoDB in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront for Art and Architecture exhibit in New York City announced Insight: A Data and Design Competition. This open call for submissions brings together data visualization and the built environment in contemporary culture, with the goal of inspiring beautiful, creative, and complex works using CartoDB.
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We’re hosting a workshop in Chicago, IL, this week, and you’re invited! Join us for some geo-fun as we take on the Chi-town civic tech scene.
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As mappers, you might be familiar with a few theories of cosmology related to how our earth supports itself, the less scientific of them being the most fascinating. In Ancient Greece and Rome, Atlas was the titan who lifted the earth and sky. In A Brief History of Time, the opening anecdote suggests that the earth is flat and supported on the back of a turtle, or a chain of “turtles all the way down”.
While the globes of myth were supported on the shoulders (and shells) of a few, today’s cartography is the crowdsourced result of a world of contributors. We like to think that contemporary mapmakers are building the modern atlas, and resources like Wikipedia support the modern gazeteer. At MapLift you can contribute to both! What’s more, we’ll give you CartoDB support to do so! Read on to learn more about how we’re partnering with NACIS to build a better open gazeteer for the world.
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At the invitation of Eva Adler and Norman Shamas, I had the pleasure of giving a workshop on CartoDB’s real-time mapping capabilities for the TechChange class Mapping for Social Good. Eva Adler’s course covers an impressive array of material on web mapping related to global development work.
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We love our community of mappers, designers, and data-afficionados. Which is why CartoDB is proud to announce: Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront for Art and Architecture exhibit in New York City!
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International Geomatics Week 2015 will take place in Bogotá’s Whyndam Hotel from August 10 - 14, 2015 as part of the Agustín Codazzi Geographical Institute’s 80th anniversary celebrations. The event’s focus is “Geospatial Information for Peacebuilding,” and will consist of talks, workshops, and networking events about innovative cloud-based geospatial technologies, and their applications in the public and private sectors.
Innovation, new technologies, and all things cloud-related are at the very core of CartoDB, so we couldn’t miss this event! Our very own Javier de la Torre will be delivering a keynote on the next generation of geospatial platforms at 9:15 on Tuesday August 11, and hosting a workshop about CartoDB and QGIS on Thursday, August 13. Browse through the full schedule here.
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CartoDB has always been a big advocate of civic technology. From our partnerships with organizations such as Code for America and rapidly growing grant programs for startups, climate action, and non-profits, we’re always looking for ways to help civic tech organizations and companies excel at what they do best.
Recently, we had the pleasure of collaborating with PlaceSpeak, a Vancouver-based company that has taken cities and civic participation to new heights across the world! With our love for civic technology, beautiful and insightful mapping, and community collaboration, it was only a matter of time before our paths crossed and civic co-creation with cutting edge technology was able to blossom.
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Some companies ask their users to follow them, but we love following our users. Since the Esri User Conference will be happening in San Diego next week, we’ll be there to celebrate the geospatial industry. We’ll be at the Half Door Brewing Company, right in the heart of the Gaslamp Quarter, on Sunday July 19th, from
8 p.m. onward for some CartoDBeers and snacks. We’ll also be in San Diego for the week, meeting with partners and clients, so drop me an email if you would like to meet up.
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CartoDB has always been committed to empowering communities, people, and organizations that seek to use mapping and data for civic prosperity and growth. From our long-running climate and non profit grants, to sponsoring mapping meetups across the country, we are always looking for new ways to support efforts that re-think how data, mapping, and programming impact civic engagement.
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In the high-speed world of data journalism it’s always important to stay on top of the latest story. Being able to quickly and beautifully visualize information in creative ways is essential! That’s why our team here at CartoDB is committed to not only providing the go-to world-class journalism mapping tool, but we’re also cultivating a journalism mapping community with efforts such as training sessions, journalism conferences and events, and now, our bi-weekly CartoDB JournoNewsletter!
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This weekend almost 80 people gathered in a nice country house located in the middle of the park of El Alamillo in Seville at Geocamp ES to discuss open data, open source and geospatial information. Geocamp ES 2015 is the third edition of a conference series following the lead of Geocamp in Portugal. Past editions where organized by Geoinquietos Galicia in Vigo and A Coruña and this year Geoinquietos Seville took the flag to organize this unconference. The format of Geocamp ES is a one day event with some of the talks programmed and the rest of them proposed the very same day. The schedule is finally defined at the beginning of the conference with a relaxed timing to give time for discussion while others talks are shorter and focused to the topic.
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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 the concurrent OKFN meetups reveals a healthy two weeks of activity on the USA-EST front. With so much hyper-local happening, we at CartoDB decided to stay local as a team, and outsource our distant conference attendance to a deserving academic. Two weeks ago, we tweeted asking for the “best mapping visualization in exchange for a free ticket to Eyeo,” and while there were several worthy submissions, one was superior to the rest.
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As you may know, last week the United Nations Headquarters in New York City hosted the monumental State of The Map US Conference, and for a few days, the CartoDB team and map lovers from around the world got together for some incredible events and happenings across the city! You may have also noticed that our team here at CartoDB in partnership with DigitalGlobe took this opportunity to take the first ever high resolution satellite selfie from space!
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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 talks, activities, and events. We at CartoDB were excited to take part and engage with a community filled with innovative thinkers - bringing the world up-to-date at the biggest Open Street Map conference. All of the energy of the mapping world converged in one space to make a great and invigorating affair.
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Supporting our mapping communities around the world is a big slice of what CartoDB is all about. We feel that it’s our fellow mappers and GIS communities that have helped shape what CartoDB is today. This is why a few months back CartoDB had the pleasure of buying pizza for a world of mappers for our March of Maptime! The pizza was a hit, and we had a blast, so we asked ourselves: “Why stop there?”.
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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. On May 15th (that is 5/15/15, the best of palindrome days!) we convened over 150 geographers, researchers and mappers to give keynotes and lightning talks on the topic of news maps. We featured 16 speakers, from a few countries and a varied program of newsrooms, attracting the communities of our planning partners at Parson’s Journalism + Design program and Knight Mozilla Open News. We learned, mapped, and built together a program of impressive talks and projects! Read on to learn more!
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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 conservation by developing a viewer that tracks various bird distributional patterns built with CartoDB.
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Take a look at some of the most well-trafficked maps in our gallery and it’s not hard to understand how often data-driven journalism underscores great maps, and how common the contribution of reporters is to our community at CartoDB. To support this growing group of cartographers in newsrooms, we’re hosting a two-day conference in two weeks and you’re invited! Read on to learn more about our schedule, our speakers, and how you can score tickets!
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On May 13, 2015 from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m., CartoDB will participate and host a session of NewCo at the CartoDB Brooklyn Office - 143 Roebling Street, 2A. Chief Science Officer Andrew Hill will present on the mastery of visualization and location and how emerging geo-technology platforms and tools are changing the way we see and understand the world around us.
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At CartoDB our toes grow green. That is to say, we love our planet, environment, biodiversity, clean water, and all great things that envelope our shared hunk of rock in space. So Happy Earth Day! Celebrate with us by reaching out to your favorite organizations, getting out on your favorite trails, and of course, exploring some of your favorite environment maps :)
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At CartoDB we love our mapping communities. With Maptime being one of our favorite gatherings - and a catalyzer of mapping culture not only in CartoDB’s home of New York City, but across the world - We felt it was time to give a big pizza slice shaped thank you to all the map-building, pizza-loving folks that have elevated Maptime as a staple in cartographic culture.
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CartoDB is very honored to announce that we’ve been nominated for a Webby! How do you say thank you in five words or less?
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Next Wednesday, April 15th, we’re hosting a new edition of CartoDBeers - the informal gathering where we talk about maps, tech, and latest news. This time we are proud to welcome our very own Paul Ramsey, who will be presenting ‘Magical PostGIS in three brief movements.’
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Two weeks ago the CartoDB team spent a very intense week in Barcelona, participating in the Mobile World Congress and 4YFN events at two different booths. We are certainly blessed to have such a conference take place so close to our Madrid offices, with so many relevant enterprise actors from all over the world passing through.
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As you probably know, we have a deep commitment with the open data and mapping communities. We feel supporting people and organisations passionate about the values and technologies that in the end make CartoDB possible is a good thing. And the UK is home to some of the most active open communities in the world.
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The Geobeers will be taking the Mobile World Congress by storm on Wednesday, March 4th at 8 PM! A few mapping companies will be at Mobile World Congress and we thought it would be a great idea to get together to talk and have some beers.
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From March 2-5, we will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona showcasing our latest developments in geospatial platforms and other mapping technologies. The CartoDB team will be ready to engage in and demonstrate the use and efficacy of location-based services and maps—a considerable part of the mobile experience.
Apart from learning about CartoDB, don’t miss ‘The Next Generation Mapping platform will be Open Source,’ a panel we are hosting with some of the most influential people in the mapping industry. The panel will be on March 4 at 3:30 p.m. in the presentation area of the Spanish Pavilion (Congress Square CS60).
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CartoDB is excited to participate in the American Museum of Natural History’s Educator’s Evening on January 30. We’re excited because we know that secondary and primary students will do amazing things with maps.
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Recently, CartoDB had the the chance to put our new space to work by hosting MaptimeNYC in our New York office. This exciting and informative session was a great opportunity to bring together mappers from across the city in a community-run and critically engaged environment.
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Building a startup is both difficult and rewarding work. It requires a team of dedicated and passionate people, with the tools and skills to face challenges head on, and re-imagine the possibilities of successful innovation. Being a product of these experiences, our team at CartoDB was proud to partner with The Startup Institute New York to elevate and educate new communities of innovators!
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Fall semester is coming to a close and with that thousands of incredible educators get to wrap up their courses and start planning for the next ones. We are really proud that CartoDB has been a part of many of those courses and will be a bigger part of many more next semester. That is why we thought it was time to start digging into the challenges of teaching with maps in the classroom.
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Nothing feels better than when someone tells us they are using CartoDB in the classroom. That’s why we have worked hard to make teaching with CartoDB easier and more intuitive by creating educational resources that help educators get right to the exciting stuff. To top it all off, we are throwing our first ever Educator’s Night in NYC this week!
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Creating visualizations to help save the planet.
Here at CartoDB, we take pride in doing our part to make the planet a better place. Growing environmental issues need our attention, and as part of EcoHack World, CartoDB has teamed up with designers, developers, and scientists this Sunday, November 16th to bring awareness to our world through beautiful visualizations.
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Mapping has always been a tool for studying environmental change and enabling protection on all levels. Here at CartoDB, we want to share our commitment to IUCN’s efforts to protecting and conserving our natural ecosystems across the world by bringing to the table powerful and easy to use mapping tools.
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We are happy to announce that CartoDB has been awarded the European Union Europioneers 2014 High Growth Web Entrepreneur award. The award was announced today at the Web Summit in Dublin, one of the biggest web conferences in Europe. Runners up included some of the most exciting web companies in Europe today, such as Wunderlist, Klarna, Hailo and Transferwise among others.
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We live in exciting times when it comes to working with data and creating useful products for citizens and organizations. The open data trend keeps growing solidly: public administrations and organizations all over the world keep pushing the boundaries with really good opening projects. On the tools front, simpler and more powerful APIs and tools keep popping up, ensuring that increasingly more people capture and process huge quantities of data, analyze it, and have better communication.
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The world is slowly being filled with open data (at last!). More and more organizations are understanding the need and usefulness of opening up data sets. But when we talk open data, we tend to think -only- in public administrations and non-profit organizations making their data accessible. But what about private companies? Wouldn’t them also benefit from people reusing that data, their creativity and ideas, the creation of ecosystems, and the whole lot?
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Los próximos días estaremos de nuevo en México. Visitaremos el DF, Monterrey y Guadalajara como parte de los eventos de presentación del InnovaChallenge MX. En estos eventos hablaremos sobre el concurso, realizaremos una demo de CartoDB y mostraremos ejemplos de mapas creados con los datos abiertos para el concurso, y contaremos con personas locales que están desarrollando proyectos relacionados con datos. Una tarde para hablar de datos abiertos, mapas y conectar con gente de la comunidad mexicana. ¡Te esperamos!
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Diego ‘Kartones’ will be giving a tech intro to CartoDB in the next LocationTech Meetup held in Madrid. Come and learn about CartoDB internals, and how can you use it for any kind of mapping projects, from small visualizations to complex custom web-based data visualization interfaces. Meet us next Tuesday, 21 October 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM @ MediaLab Prado.
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¡CartoDB visita México DF! Durante las dos próximas semanas estaremos visitando el DF, asistiendo a la conferencia ConDatos y teniendo reuniones con clientes y usuarios de CartoDB. ¿Nos vemos?
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As expected, we had a terrific time at FOSS4G in Portland. We got to hang out with an invigorating community, listen to tons of amazing people, share our Developers Program plans… and we also got our share of talking. Several CartoDB team members were presenting, and now you can enjoy their presentations in the comfort of your home (or whichever place any of your mobile devices allow!).
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Do you want more soccer after the World Cup and you are in San Francisco? We invite you to attend a match between Atlético de Madrid (2013 Spanish League winners, no less) and San Jose Earthquakes.
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On Monday, May 19th at 7PM we are going to be getting together for happy hour in NYC. This will be a fun time for us to meet with some of our awesome users and chat with anyone interested in maps, technology, or what we do at CartoDB. We have an awesome user community in NYC, so we love any opportunity to bring them together.
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Do you want to get a free pass to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona? CartoDB is here to help! We are giving away two completely free passes to the MWC. You just need to create an amazing map with CartoDB, and you will be entering in our contest. We will give away two passes to the two best maps created with CartoDB.
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Well, it is the start of a long stretch of Fall conferences and events where we will be demonstrating how to use CartoDB andtalking the future of our platform. Tomorrow we’ll kick it all off with NACIS in Greenville, South Carolina. It is the first time we have been able to get to NACIS, heck, it’s the first time we’ve been to a lot of these events. If you are planning on coming to one, be sure to check out one of our workshops or presentations. We look for seeing you in person!
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We have a couple of public presentations coming up that we wanted to let you know about. They are both in the NYC area, but don’t worry, we have OKCon, FOSS4G, NACIS, and Strata London all coming up in other places!
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We are happy to be sponsors again for next month’s FOSS4G conference in Nottingham. These is one of our favorite meetings, where many of the people we look up to come together to talk about mapping and geospatial technologies. We’d love to see you there, hopefully we’ll even have some t-shirts to give out. Three of our team members will be coming, Javier de la Torre, Sandro Santilli, and Chris Holmes, so grab any of them to chat CartoDB.
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Today we here from Chong Zi Xin and a team of hackers that took part in the recent, Urban Data Challenge. The team reached out a few months ago about using CartoDB for their challenge entry and the other day we found that their entry had won 3rd place. We were really impressed with some of the maps they produced, including perspective views with integrated bar charts (wow!).
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Hackathons
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Yesterday was GIS day, so naturally today, and the next 364 days, are PostGIS days. In order to celebrate a year of PostGIS days, we’ve made this little map which we hope you like.
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While still only three-quarters of the way through the year, 2012 will definitely be referenced as an important year for maps. In 2012 Google began charging for maps, ESRI bought up some key geospatial innovators, Amazon launched its own maps API, and everyone knows Apple launched its own maps app. While at the same time, we saw many important online maps providers, including Apple, Craigslist, Wikipedia, and FourSquare, finally make the move to OpenStreetMap.
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When we read about Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground in Rosswell, New Mexico, we were pretty excited.
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We had a great time last week at the Online News Association (ONA) annual conference, held in San Francisco. The world’s largest and most important conference on online journalism was an opportunity to hear about “what’s happening now and what will be happening in the future” in online media, as Stanford’s Jim Bettinger says. There were more than 1,400 people in attendance and 34,505 tweets labelled with the hashtag #ona12.
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The Online News Association (ONA) and its academic partner, the School of Communication at the University of Miami, have announced the finalist for the 2012 Online Journalism Award. CartoDB is nominated for the Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism.
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Putting data to work. That’s the next step of the open data movement and the theme of the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC), starting today at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington. World Bank’s president Jim Young Kim first public speech is kicking off the meeting, co-sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration, Data.gov, the World Bank Open Data Initiative and the Open Development Technology Alliance.
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Lots of things going on lately, we’re sorry we haven’t been able to update the blog. We’ve been attending interesting meetings here and there (Paris, Berlin, NY, Madrid”), giving workshops, releasing new updates, and working on a new set of functionalities to be included in the next version of CartoDB. If you follow the blog of Vizzuality (the developers of CartoDB), you may know by now that we’re also launching new projects —check out the Endangered Languages Project collaborative effort. More to come in the following weeks.
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This week we’ve been experimenting with balloon mapping. Sense Maker (the team behind the Air Quality Egg and other projects) donated helium for the EcoHackNYC, and there was some left. After the first tests, and thanks to the big help of Liz and Leaf from The Public Laboratory, we flied our own balloon over the office in NYC.
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We spent yersterday’s Earth Day at our offices in NYC trying to do balloon mapping, a nice way to end an intense EcoHackNYC weekend. It is the second time we co-organized this (un)conference. Last fall we gathered at NYU and this time we met at Parsons.
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The Award Ceremony for the NYC BigApps3.0 competition was held yesterday. Ninety-six apps were submitted to this city-run contest that encourages developers to play with government data. There were 4 apps, that we know!, using CartoDB:
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What a month, we just finished Where conference and we are ready to attend another conference. This time it will be the great FOSS4G North America Conference in Washington DC.
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We are participating today in the sixth edition of “SIG Libre”, a conference on GIS organized by Universitat de Girona. It’s one of the main events of its kind held in Spain, with a special focus on free tools for cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology. You can check the full program and the keynote speakers at the conference website.
