Solving geospatial use-cases

Explore a range of tutorials in this section, each designed to guide you through solving various geospatial use-cases with Builder and the wider CARTO Platform. These tutorials leverage available demo data from the CARTO Data Warehouse connection, enabling you to dive straight into map creation right from the start.

Build a store performance monitoring dashboard for retail stores in the USA

In this tutorial we are going to visualize revenue performance and surface area of retail stores across the USA. We will construct two views, one of individual store performance using bubbles, and one of aggregated performance using hexagons. By visualizing this information on a map we can easily identify where our business is performing better and which are the most successful stores (revenue inversely correlated with surface area).

Analyzing Airbnb ratings in Los Angeles

In this tutorial we will analyzi which factors drive the overall impression of Airbnb users by relating the overall rating score with different variables through a Geographically Weighted Regression model. Additionally, we'll analyze more in-depth the areas where the location score drives the overall rating, and inspect sociodemographic attributes on these by enriching our visualization with data from the Data Observatory

Assessing the damages of La Palma Volcano

Since 11 September 2021, a swarm of seismic activity had been ongoing in the sourthern part of the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma. The increasing frequency, magnitude, and shallowness of the seismic events were an indication of a pending volcanic eruption; which occurred on the 16th September, leading to evalucation of people living in the vicinity. In this tutorial we are going to assess the number of buildings, estimated property value and population that may get affected by the lava flow and its deposits.