Data Council Week (Ep 5): A Primer on Spatial Data With Gabriel Hidalgo of Carto

April 29, 2022

Welcome to a special series of The Data Stack Show from Data Council Austin. This episode, Eric and Kostas chat with Gabriel Hidalgo, a support engineer at Carto. During the episode, Gabriel explains the difference between location, time, and spatial data, what spatial functions are, and how Carto is used by its customers.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • How Gabriel got into data (1:54)
  • What Carto is (5:28)
  • Location data vs spatial data (6:37)
  • Time data vs space data (7:50)
  • System supports for spatial data (9:50)
  • Explaining “spatial functions” (14:19)
  • Who uses Carto and why (15:52)
  • What’s coming for Carto (19:15)
  • What Gabriel does at Carto (22:22)
  • The coolest things Carto’s done (23:52)

 

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