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
Is "Ass" The Most Complicated Word in English?
A Visual Investigation for The Pudding
We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were An Incomprehensible Disaster
A Visual Op-ed for The New York Times
The Ultimate Ultimate Guitar Story
A story about guitar players and the songs they love
Close-ish Encounters
Thought the word cloud was played out? Think again.
Keeping The Team Together
A look at how NBA team continuity translates to success
Death After The Mediterranean
An investigation of refugee deaths in Europe
In-progress Projects
What is Philosophy?
A visual attempt to define the notoriously nebulous discipline
Something Interactive
3,000 GoFundMe Campaigns, Mapped
Created using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Pandas/Python, and Leaflet
Selected Writing
Can You Teach A Computer To Be Funny?
Portrait of the Artist as a Microbial Growth
Am I My Memories?
The Delicate Art of Illustrating Ancient Sharks
Can Speech Be Violence?
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.