Yesterday we announced a significant milestone for this company: we have partnered with EarlyBird, Vitamina K, and Kibo Ventures to take CartoDB to a new level.

RocketMill are a digital marketing agency working on behalf of Caring Homes, a leading UK care home provider. As businesses, they share similar values: they are people-centred, value transparency and are both innovative. This interactive data graphic is completely in line with these values. Krystian Szastok was the project leader and the creator of the map and concept.

At FOSS4G in Denver, three years ago, our team huddled in a house rapidly committed the final code for our CartoDB Beta release. That year, and every year since, we have spoken, sponsored, and loved being part of FOSS4G. This year, we have more than 6 talks and workshops involving CartoDB!

Earlier last month we released a beta version of Twitter Maps, which gives you the ability to map tweets directly from the CartoDB Editor. Today we are excited to announce the next phase of our Twitter Maps service: general availability for our Enterprise plan customers.

We welcome Laura Kurtzberg, Data Intern at ecoLab, to our Map of the Week series. Kurtzberg work on the InfoAmazonia project along with other online undertakings. She cares about using Internet technology for humanitarian and environmental causes.

Every single day we see a huge influx of beautiful maps created using CartoDB. The topics range from everything from the best places to live in the UK to seismic activity in the depths of Iceland. We decided to compile a list of some really cool maps done by huge media outlets in the last couple of days.

We welcome Pedro Cuhna to our Map of The Week series. He’s a developer currently working in Startup Institute as a freelancer. Check some of his work here.

Cunha created an interactive map with Dmitry Pavluk, Anna Young, and Diego Torres Quintanilla to provide a baseline understanding of air pollution around the world. The map was published by The Atlantic magazine

Welcome Kalev H. Leetaru, a fellow and adjunct faculty in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. In this guest post Kalev talks about how he used CartoDB to create a map of global conflict that updates every morning.