The terms “big data” and “massive data analytics” likely conjure thoughts of the modern world, of hundreds of millions of tweets or billions of Facebook posts streaming in real time into gleaming data ...

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Friday marks the end of this year’s Banned Books Week. Sponsored by the American Library Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and several other groups, Banned Books Week has ...

This book is bad news for President Trump's chief advisor, Steve Bannon, and his colleagues at Breitbart Media. Author Parag Khanna's meticulous mapping of our planet's human-designed infrastructure ...

The simple line map of the world, sketched in faded brownish ink on a single small (about 11 in. by 16 in.) sheet of patched and worm-eaten vellum seems humdrum. In reality, it is by far the most ...

Although many books written for children and young adults take place in entirely fictitious worlds, there are plenty more whose plots unfold in actual, real-world locations that can be found on the ...

“Location, location, location” isn’t just a real estate mantra; it can also serve as a succinct definition of geography. But a new online initiative is using Canadian literature to shine light on both ...