Visualizing bird migration: highlighting the relationship between migratory birds and the Toronto region through graphic design practice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bird migration phenomenon takes place many thousands of meters above the ground and between distant locales and therefore remains largely invisible to human observers. The goal of this thesis project is to bring migration into focus by using environmental graphic design installations that highlight Toronto's role as a stopover site for migratory birds and activating a site on the city's waterfront. The final design artifact is composed of three site-specific elements. The first is a wall-mounted graphic work that functions like a sundial to reveal the cyclical nature of seasonal migration. The second is a boardwalk installation that measures the distances travelled by birds migrating from Central and South America to Toronto. The final component is a map of the primary avian stopover sites in Toronto (hot spots), which encourages visitors to explore the city's natural habitats. \n\nThis thesis offers examples of how graphic design can go beyond traditional awareness campaign tactics to call attention to natural processes in the environment in order to create meaningful connections between citizens and the natural world. Therefore the role of design in facilitating human connection to natural cycles is of paramount importance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".