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