Stacking Chips - Showing Many Points that Share the Same Location

The NYPD released detailed crime data about "seven major felonies" in NYC for the first 3 quarters of 2015, but the point locations have been adjusted to mid-block or nearest intersection to prevent exact location determination. This results in many rows with the same point coordinates, causing an overlapping points problem. To address this issue, various visualization techniques can be used, including heatmaps, clustering, and spidering, which can help obscure or re-represent the data in a more usable way. A SQL hack using CARTO's `ST_Translate` function allows for dynamic offsetting of point coordinates based on zoom level, effectively creating "stacks" of markers at each location, providing both visual styling and interactivity with every point in the dataset.

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