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• Limitations of frontend applications
  • Speed
  • Analytic limitations
  • Storage
• What's a 'backend'
  • Code that runs on a server
  • Data stored in a program specialized to the task
• CartoDB
  • Loading data
  • Styling maps
  • Serving data

We're going to be exploring CartoDB together. Think lab 1 as a scavenger hunt - your task is to discover useful and interesting CartoDB features which you might reasonably use for this week's assignment and the final.

• Lab 1 The CartoDB user interface

• Complete CartoDB interoperation assignment