Cloud Geodatabase Analysis and Visualization

This chapter will cover CARTOframes, a Python package released by location intelligence software company CARTO in November 2017. It offers a Python interface for working with the CARTO stack, enabling integration of CARTO maps, analysis, and data services into data science workflows.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • The specifics of the CARTOframes Python library
  • Getting familiar with the CARTO stack and how CARTOframes interacts with different parts of it
  • How to install CARTOframes, its package requirements, and documentation
  • The different package dependencies of CARTOframes
  • How to get a CARTO API key
  • Setting up a CARTO Builder account
  • Virtual environments
  • Using Jupyter Notebook ...

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