Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The world’s news media offers an incredibly rich geographic lens through ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Language is inextricably interconnected with geography. Each day as we ...

Jack Dangermond started his working life at his parents’ plant nursery in Redlands. Now, Forbes says, he’s a billionaire. Dangermond is founder and president of Esri, one of the world’s leading ...

A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t ...

"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...

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For Jude Kastens, who grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas, rainfall was always serious business. Although flooding wasn't ...

The belief that China is a country only good at adopting technologies at scale has been a "misperception", according to the author of The New Geography of Innovation, a recently published book that ...