Jeremy Gillies

In a sim­i­lar vein to his geo-tagger’s map of tourism, Eric Fis­cher cre­ates another visu­al­i­sa­tion that demar­cates geo­graph­i­cal areas. This time com­bin­ing flickr and Twit­ter by rep­re­sent­ing tweets with a geo-tagged photo link with blue dots and a geo-tagged flickr photo with orange dots (both are rep­re­sented with white dots). Beautiful.

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a cog­ni­tive bias in which unskilled peo­ple make poor deci­sions and reach erro­neous con­clu­sions, but their incom­pe­tence denies them the metacog­ni­tive abil­ity to appre­ci­ate their mis­takes. The unskilled there­fore suf­fer from illu­sory supe­ri­or­ity, rat­ing their abil­ity as above aver­age, much higher than it actu­ally is, while the highly skilled under­rate their own abil­i­ties, suf­fer­ing from illu­sory inferiority.

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Fea­tur­ing slots such as How did you die?, let­ters from peo­ple on earth and an inter­view with a woman who has an immensely strong feel­ing she could play every musi­cal instru­ment bet­ter than any­one who has ever lived.

Genius

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