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Welcome to the CartoDB Map Academy Wiki!

Do you have ideas on academy lessons? If so, add them to the planning page or contact ohasselblad.

Courses actively being developed

Andy

1. CartoDB.js from the ground up
2. SQL and PostGIS in CartoDB

Steph

1. Academy Lite lesson on CartoCSS
2. Intermediate Map Design

Courses that are next up for development

1. How to make this map
2. Advanced SQL
3. Data Curation
4. CartoDB for Educators
5. The Math of Maps
   1. Projections (and how to use them in CartoDB)
   2. Quantification methods, compositing methods
   3. Quadtrees

Contributing tips

• Code snippet highlighting via Jekyll where linenos is optional. linenos is kind of annoying as it's implemented because copying and pasting takes the numbers with it.

{% highlight language_name [linenos] %}
code
more code
even more code
lots more code
{% endhighlight %}

• @matallo is the gate keeper for Academy, so ping him when you've done a pull request
• After the pull request, master needs to be merged to gh-pages to make site live

Videos Details

• 1280px × 720px screen resolution
• Vimeo's guidelines

Style Guide

When communicating arbitrary code snippets, write ...code...?