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Record W2169188219 · doi:10.1061/9780784413517.081

Testing the Application of Google Fusion Tables as a Collaborative Productivity Database and Benchmarking System for the Construction Industry

2014· article· en· W2169188219 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueConstruction Research Congress 2014 · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersGoogle
KeywordsBenchmarkingUploadDatabaseWorld Wide WebComputer scienceThe InternetPublicationBusiness

Abstract

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Productivity benchmarking has been an elusive element for construction companies around the world. With the advent of the Internet, many companies have attempted Web-based database and benchmarking efforts since the late 1990s. However, an industry consensus on a collaborative database and benchmarking tool has yet to be established. New opportunities are being generated for efficient and free database services that are challenging the established paradigm. Google fusion tables (GFT) Web application was launched in 2009 and has been evolving ever since release. GFT provides a user-friendly, collaborative, and interactive database tool that is available to the public on an international scale at no charge. This tool provides users with options to publish their data on another site, make it publically available and discoverable by search engines, or keep it private. The research presented in this paper aims to develop a pilot database using GFT for the storage and management of data from work-sampling observations for designated work trades on a project located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Data were uploaded to the Google cloud to commence the pilot database. The collected data were complemented further by the tool's charts and shared with participating parties. The application of GFT as a data management system was tested against a selected company's extranet and individually assessed through the survey of the users of the pilot program.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.806
Threshold uncertainty score0.775

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it