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The Library · 5 books

Books — long-form, in the open

Each book is its own Quarto project, deployed independently. Source on GitHub; PDFs and EPUBs alongside the web edition.

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Glacial valley at dusk
Glacial valley at dusk — Bailey Zindel · Unsplash
01 Computational Geography Computational Geography
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Computational Geography

A guided path through mathematics foundations, earth systems, GIS, hazards, and economic geography. Built for readers who want to understand the machinery, not just the output.

Earth systemsGISHazardsEconomic geography
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02 Mathematics Mathematics
Active · 8 volumes

Mathematics

Eight volumes from arithmetic foundations to upper-year engineering mathematics. Triangulated from Alberta Gr 7–12, Stroud & Booth, Kreyszig, and the U of A MATH sequence.

FoundationsEngineering mathUpper-year
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Terminal, amber-on-black
Terminal, amber-on-black — Markus Spiske · Unsplash
03 Mathematics for Data Science & AI Math for DS & AI
Drafting · 12 chapters

Mathematics for Data Science & AI

Linear algebra, probability, optimization, and information theory — built on the Mathematics foundations and aimed straight at the modern data and ML stack.

Linear algebraProbabilityOptimizationInformation
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Data hall, cable plane
Data hall, cable plane — Taylor Vick · Unsplash
04 Data Engineering for Spatial Systems Data Engineering
Drafting · 9 chapters

Data Engineering for Spatial Systems

Architecture, spatial databases, pipelines, cloud, streaming, APIs, quality and governance, and ML platforms — for systems that have to know where things are.

ArchitectureSpatial DBsPipelinesML platforms
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Braided river, aerial
Braided river, aerial — Luca Bravo · Unsplash
05 Systems Thinking for Modellers Systems Thinking
Drafting · 9 chapters

Systems Thinking for Modellers

Feedback, complexity and emergence — for the people who build models and have to explain why the model and the world disagree.

FeedbackComplexityEmergenceModelling
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