bcdata: An R package for searching retrieving data from the B.C. Data Catalogue
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.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
bcdata is an R package that connects publicly available metadata and data sets in the British Columbia (B.C.) Data Catalogue (DataBC Program (2020)) to the diverse array of mapping, modeling and data processing capabilities of the R ecosystem. bcdata enables the efficient retrieval of British Columbia's geospatial data, and supports repeatable and reproducible analysis of hundreds of open-licensed British Columbia public sector data sets. By enabling programmatic access to the B.C. Data Catalogue using familiar R dplyr syntax (Wickham et al. (2020)), bcdata helps both novice and experienced R users find and use British Columbia government public and open data holdings.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.045 | 0.026 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it