Of Maps Bigger than the Empire (Keynote Paper)

in a passage by J.LBorges on the "exactituide of Science", a fictituos author describes an Empire in which the art of Cartography "logro' tal perfeccions que el mapa de una sola Provicia ocupaba toda la Ciudad, y el mapa del imperio ocupaba toda la Provincia". With time, these huge maps woudn't be enough and the Colleges of Cartographers erected a map that equalled in width the Empire itself... This paper concerns itself with increasing cases of pattern discovery and data mining in which synopses, indeces and relationships thereof seem to grow faster and bigger than the phenomena they were meant to encapsulate. The paper then reviews specifics examples of algorithmic and combinatorial constructs that proved capable of alleviating such paradoxes in the author's recent work experience.