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A full page ad appeared in six major American newspapers (The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, and USA Today) announcing that the fast food chain Taco Bell has purchased the Liberty Bell. The full text of the ad reads: “Taco Bell Buys the Liberty Bell: In an effort to help the national debt, Taco Bell is pleased to announce that we have agreed to...

On behalf of UCSB Geography’s STKO lab members Yingjie Hu, Grant McKenzie, Jiue-An Yang, Song Gao, Amin Abdalla, and Professor Krzysztof Janowicz (Director), Yingjie was presented with 2nd prize for a presentation of “A Linked-Data-Driven Web Portal for Learning Analytics: Data Enrichment, Interactive Visualization, and Knowledge Discovery” in the 2014 LAK Data Challenge which was sponsored by the Association for...

It is often remarked that knowledge is power, but through its collaboration with the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), UCSB Geography Department’s Climate Hazards Group (CHG) seeks to turn knowledge into food. For the past several years, the CHG has been working with FEWS NET to build a global network of data collection and to develop data analysis tools designed to help decision makers and stakeholders mitigate...