Cooper Thomas

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Justice Deferred: The Geography of Japanese American Internment

Published on February 16, 2017

February 19, 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which condemned over 120,000 Japanese-American civilians to…

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Vector Basemaps

Published on November 16, 2016

Let’s talk basemaps for a minute. These all-too-often under-appreciated reference layers have an outsized influence on the look…

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An Atlas of Electricity

Published on October 29, 2016

One of the coolest things about working on the Story Maps team is that I am allowed, and…

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Iran Map Tour: A Glimpse Beyond the Headlines

Published on October 10, 2016

Last summer, my sister and I spent two weeks traveling in Iran. Incidentally, our visit coincided with Ramadan—the…

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Inside the World’s 10 Largest Refugee Camps

Published on August 24, 2016

Around the world, nearly four million refugees reside in planned or self-settled camps. This interactive map, created for…

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2016 Terrorist Attacks: Live Map

Published on July 31, 2016

This custom Story Map uses crowdsourced data from Wikipedia, updated every hour, to present a chronology of terrorist…

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The Uprooted: Mapping the Refugee Crisis

Published on February 23, 2016

Click the image above to launch the full interactive story in a new tab. (Note: this story is…

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Reflections, or: Mugged In Quito (but Whatever)

Published on February 22, 2016

Many moons have passed since my last post, and not without reason. It was nearly seven months ago…

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