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CARTO at SVA

Andy Eschbacher, @MrEPhysics Data Scientist at CARTO

Introduction

Maps I like

Making the maps

There are several ways to create maps through CARTO.

  1. Builder
  2. APIs
  3. Python (presentation)

Getting your accounts

  1. GitHub Student pack! https://education.github.com/pack
  2. Signup at https://carto.com/signup Imgur

Taxi Dataset

Copy this link:

http://eschbacher.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql?q=SELECT%20*%20from%20taxi_aug_21_22_2015&format=csv&filename=taxi_aug_21_22_2015
  1. And paste it into your CARTO dataset upload window.
  2. Let's see how we can visualize this data

I did a workshop on this dataset last winter: https://github.com/CartoCamp/workshops/blob/master/2016-12-02-explore-time-space-sql-postgis/writeup.md.

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