Visualizing the Rideau Canal through early budget estimates, 1823–1824
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1823–1824 Samuel Clowes prepared preliminary budget estimates for the construction of an inland waterway from Kingston, on Lake Ontario, to the Ottawa River in Upper Canada. An in-depth analysis of Clowes’ budget estimates explores their visual aspects: how the form and structure of the estimates are visual and how descriptive commentary included in the estimates aids readers in visualizing the proposed canal. The article then examines how the budget estimates are used for rhetorical purposes. The estimates are rhetorical both directly and indirectly. The ordered and logical visual form and structure of the estimates supports their rationality; claims of rationality are used in turn for rhetorical purposes. Further, properties of the estimates which allow readers to visualize the canal are rhetorical in their own right. Thus this article contributes to an understanding of early capital budgeting practices in canal building in North America, as well as to an understanding of accounting and budgeting as visual, rational and rhetorical.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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