Last week CartoDB was presented at New York Tech Meetup. The audience in the auditorium was over 800 and more over the broadcasting. There was great interest from the NY Tech community.

We’re really happy to announce the arrival of Sandro Santilli, one of the core committers of PostGIS, to the CartoDB team.

In United States there is quite a discussion about redrawing legislative district lines. The Center for Urban Research in New York together with The New York World have developed some comparison maps. They have used CartoDB to develop those maps and we would like to share the link to the application as we think is really interesting comparison technique. Steven Romalewski has written a blog post about it.

Here there is a new screencast from @jatorre on how to load, georeference and visualize the data from the Financial Secrecy Index. It makes for a good demo of the new Thematic mapping capabilities.

Today we get the surprise of a really interesting visualization developed using CartoDB. Diego Valle has done this powerful visualization about the drug war in Mexico.