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  • Working with geospatial data
    • Geospatial data: the basics
      • What is location data?
      • Types of location data
    • Optimizing your data for spatial analysis
    • Introduction to Spatial Indexes
      • Spatial Index support in CARTO
      • Create or enrich an index
      • Work with unique Spatial Index properties
      • Using Spatial Indexes for analysis
        • Calculating traffic accident rates
        • Which cell phone towers serve the most people?
    • The modern geospatial analysis stack
      • Spatial data management and analytics with QGIS and CARTO
  • Building interactive maps
    • Introduction to CARTO Builder
    • Data sources & map layers
    • Widgets & SQL Parameters
    • Data visualization
      • Build a dashboard with styled point locations
      • Style qualitative data using hex color codes
      • Create an animated visualization with time series
      • Visualize administrative regions by defined zoom levels
      • Build a dashboard to understand historic weather events
      • Customize your visualization with tailored-made basemaps
    • Data analysis
      • Filtering multiple data sources simultaneously with SQL Parameters
      • Generate a dynamic index based on user-defined weighted variables
      • Create a dashboard with user-defined analysis using SQL Parameters
      • Analyzing multiple drive-time catchment areas dynamically
    • Sharing and collaborating
      • Dynamically control your maps using URL parameters
      • Embedding maps in BI platforms
    • Solving geospatial use-cases
      • Build a store performance monitoring dashboard for retail stores in the USA
      • Analyzing Airbnb ratings in Los Angeles
      • Assessing the damages of La Palma Volcano
  • Creating workflows
    • Introduction to CARTO Workflows
    • Step-by-step tutorials
      • Creating a composite score for fire risk
      • Spatial Scoring: Measuring merchant attractiveness and performance
      • Using crime data & spatial analysis to assess home insurance risk
      • Identify the best billboards and stores for a multi-channel product launch campaign
      • Estimate the population covered by LTE cells
      • A no-code approach to optimizing OOH advertising locations
      • Optimizing site selection for EV charging stations
      • How to optimize location planning for wind turbines
      • Calculate population living around top retail locations
      • Identifying customers potentially affected by an active fire in California
      • Finding stores in areas with weather risks
      • How to run scalable routing analysis the easy way
      • Geomarketing techniques for targeting sportswear consumers
      • How to use GenAI to optimize your spatial analysis
      • Analyzing origin and destination patterns
      • Understanding accident hotspots
    • Workflow templates
      • Data Preparation
      • Data Enrichment
      • Spatial Indexes
      • Spatial Analysis
      • Generating new spatial data
      • Statistics
      • Retail and CPG
      • Telco
      • Insurance
      • Out Of Home Advertising
  • Advanced spatial analytics
    • Introduction to the Analytics Toolbox
    • Spatial Analytics for BigQuery
      • Step-by-step tutorials
        • How to create a composite score with your spatial data
        • Space-time hotspot analysis: Identifying traffic accident hotspots
        • Spacetime hotspot classification: Understanding collision patterns
        • Time series clustering: Identifying areas with similar traffic accident patterns
        • Computing the spatial autocorrelation of POIs locations in Berlin
        • Identifying amenity hotspots in Stockholm
        • Applying GWR to understand Airbnb listings prices
        • Analyzing signal coverage with line-of-sight calculation and path loss estimation
        • Generating trade areas based on drive/walk-time isolines
        • Geocoding your address data
        • Find similar locations based on their trade areas
        • Calculating market penetration in CPG with merchant universe matching
        • Measuring merchant attractiveness and performance in CPG with spatial scores
        • Segmenting CPG merchants using trade areas characteristics
        • Store cannibalization: quantifying the effect of opening new stores on your existing network
        • Find Twin Areas of top-performing stores
        • Opening a new Pizza Hut location in Honolulu
        • An H3 grid of Starbucks locations and simple cannibalization analysis
        • Data enrichment using the Data Observatory
        • New police stations based on Chicago crime location clusters
        • Interpolating elevation along a road using kriging
        • Analyzing weather stations coverage using a Voronoi diagram
        • A NYC subway connection graph using Delaunay triangulation
        • Computing US airport connections and route interpolations
        • Identifying earthquake-prone areas in the state of California
        • Bikeshare stations within a San Francisco buffer
        • Census areas in the UK within tiles of multiple resolutions
        • Creating simple tilesets
        • Creating spatial index tilesets
        • Creating aggregation tilesets
        • Using raster and vector data to calculate total rooftop PV potential in the US
        • Using the routing module
      • About Analytics Toolbox regions
    • Spatial Analytics for Snowflake
      • Step-by-step tutorials
        • How to create a composite score with your spatial data
        • Space-time hotspot analysis: Identifying traffic accident hotspots
        • Computing the spatial autocorrelation of POIs locations in Berlin
        • Identifying amenity hotspots in Stockholm
        • Applying GWR to understand Airbnb listings prices
        • Opening a new Pizza Hut location in Honolulu
        • Generating trade areas based on drive/walk-time isolines
        • Geocoding your address data
        • Creating spatial index tilesets
        • A Quadkey grid of stores locations and simple cannibalization analysis
        • Minkowski distance to perform cannibalization analysis
        • Computing US airport connections and route interpolations
        • New supplier offices based on store locations clusters
        • Analyzing store location coverage using a Voronoi diagram
        • Enrichment of catchment areas for store characterization
        • Data enrichment using the Data Observatory
    • Spatial Analytics for Redshift
      • Step-by-step tutorials
        • Generating trade areas based on drive/walk-time isolines
        • Geocoding your address data
        • Creating spatial index tilesets
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  • Creating workflows
  • Advanced spatial analytics
  • Get help

Geospatial data: the basics

New to spatial data? Learn some of the essential foundations of handling spatial data in the modern data stack.

Optimizing your data for spatial analysis

Prepare your data so that it is optimized for spatial analysis in your cloud data warehouse with CARTO.

Introduction to Spatial Indexes

Learn to scale your analysis with Spatial Indexes, such as H3 and Quadbin.

Data visualizations

Step-by-step tutorials to learn how to build best-in-class geospatial visualizations with CARTO Builder.

Data analysis with maps

Train your spatial analysis skills and learn to build interactive dashboards and reports with our collection of tutorials.

Sharing and collaborating

Tutorials showcasing how Builder facilitates the generation and sharing of insights via collaborative and interactive maps.

Solving geospatial use-cases

More advanced tutorials showcasing how to use Builder to solve geospatial use-cases.

Step-by-step tutorials

Tutorials with step-by-step instructions for you to learn how to perform different spatial analysis examples with CARTO Workflows.

Workflow templates

Drag & drop our workflow templates into your account to get you started on a wide range of scenarios and applications, from simple building blocks for your data pipeline to industry-specific geospatial use-cases.

Spatial Analytics for BigQuery

Learn how to leverage our Analytics Toolbox to unlock advanced spatial analytics in Google BigQuery.

Spatial Analytics for Snowflake

Learn how to leverage our Analytics Toolbox to unlock advanced spatial analytics in Snowflake.

Spatial Analytics for Redshift

Learn how to leverage our Analytics Toolbox to unlock advanced spatial analytics in AWS Redshift.

Access our Product Documentation

Detailed specifications of all tools and features available in the CARTO platform.

Contact Support

Get in touch with our team of first-class geospatial specialists.

Join our community of users in Slack

Our community of users is a great place to ask questions and get help from CARTO experts.

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