By chance, does anyone have any immediate resources to learn more about topology? I've been interested in applying it to my work, but as a topic it's rather "out there" so to speak, so it's difficult to find relevant introductory material.
There's lots of different kinds of topology, Hatcher's 'Algebraic Topology' is one of the standards: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
You can also play around with OSS such as pymapper, jplex etc.