Cooper Thomas

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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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Global 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 Great In-Between: A Mongol Rally Map Journal

Published on March 27, 2016

In summer 2014, two friends and I bought a 1.1-liter Suzuki Alto on eBay UK, and proceeded to…

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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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Ecuador reference map

Published on January 9, 2016

Not too much to see here—just a lil’ reference map I whipped up for use in a few…

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Business cards

Published on December 18, 2015

I designed myself some new personal business cards—now with 1000% more contours, hexbins, and Voronoi cells!

Buildings That I Love, Part Five: the Stalinist Triumvirate at Soviet Square

Published on November 22, 2015

Previous entries in my “Buildings That I love” series have focused exclusively on the Kyrgyz capital’s Soviet Modernist…

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