Digital Tool Box for Teaching and Scholarship: Other GIS Platforms

• CARTO

  Formerly known as CartoDB, this web-mapping platform lets you upload spatial and tabular data to create interactive web maps. Click Login and create a basic, free account.
• The Map Academy

  CARTO's collection of exercises and tutorials for learning how to use their platform
• Bringing Data Into CARTO

  Demonstrates how to bring shapefiles, data tables, and coordinate data into CARTO

HEAVY.AI, formerly OmniSci ,(Formerly MapD) is an open-source SQL engine, HEAVY.AI is an analytics platform that creates visual representations of data to enhance analysis and interaction, including functionalities for multi-layered geospatial mapping. Below is an example of how HEAVY.AI works with big data: a live Twitter map. Free/Paid.