Kevin Litman-Navarro

@kevselfpromotes

About me

I'm a writer and journalist-engineer at The Pudding and Polygraph. Check out some of my visual work and writing below, and contact me at kevin.litnav @ gmail.com if you wanna chat.

Selected Data Stories

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Is "Ass" The Most Complicated Word in English?

A Visual Investigation for The Pudding

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We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were An Incomprehensible Disaster

A Visual Op-ed for The New York Times

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The Ultimate Ultimate Guitar Story

A story about guitar players and the songs they love

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Close-ish Encounters

Thought the word cloud was played out? Think again.

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Keeping The Team Together

A look at how NBA team continuity translates to success

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Death After The Mediterranean

An investigation of refugee deaths in Europe



In-progress Projects

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What is Philosophy?

A visual attempt to define the notoriously nebulous discipline



Something Interactive

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3,000 GoFundMe Campaigns, Mapped

Created using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Pandas/Python, and Leaflet



Selected Writing

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Can You Teach A Computer To Be Funny?

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Portrait of the Artist as a Microbial Growth

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Am I My Memories?

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The Delicate Art of Illustrating Ancient Sharks

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Can Speech Be Violence?

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Don't Panic! Coping With The Internet Age Through Ignorance



If you want to see more clips: my full column at JSTOR Daily; more articles for Atlas Obscura; all sorts of stories at The Outline.