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Like many of you know, building a startup is hard work. The CartoDB team is a product of this energy. Growing from a group of programmer friends with a desire to build technology for better communication–and to ultimately change the world–has taught us about what it takes to be successful innovators. Step one, obviously, is to believe in your mission. Step two is to make others believe.
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We are happy to announce Santi Saez is joining CartoDB team. He is going to try to automate everything inside the CartoDB engines.
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If you’re following our repositories or you are using Odyssey.js you will have discovered that we’ve been using markdown a lot during the last few months.
The Markdown language was created in 2004 by John Gruber, with substantial contributions from Aaron Swartz. Its goal is to allow people “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).” Because Markdown text files are plain text, you can use almost any text editor to open them.
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In the big, complex world of mapping data, it’s often easy to forget the significant impact that simple and elegant visualizations can have. For this reason, we are proud to announce our new map series Less Is More! Our new series brings together strikingly simple map designs that tell big, impactful stories. Click here to check out the series!
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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.
