My Quarto Journey

Grace Accad

What is Quarto?

• Quarto is an open-source publishing system for data science and technical content.
• It supports R, Python, Julia, and ObservableJS.
• Used for reports, presentations, blogs, books, and more.

Quarto VS R Markdown?

Feature	Quarto	R Markdown
Multi-language	Supports R, Python, Julia, ObservableJS	Primarily R
Flexibility	Built-in support for Jupyter Notebooks	R Markdown only
Output Options	PDF, HTML, Word, Reveal.js, more	Limited to R Markdown formats
Markdown	Uses Pandoc Markdown for portability	Uses R-specific Markdown

Sheffield R Survey Visualizations

September 2023

What made this project special?
- Used {googlesheets4} 📊 to read data directly from Google Sheets
- My first project in Quarto—I was still a beginner!

Sheffield R Website

• The website was already built using Quarto
• I contributed by creating posts
• It was my first experience working with Quarto websites
• I learned how easy it is to write, format, and publish content using .qmd files

Folk Singing Dashboard

My Turning Point with Quarto

• Started this project using {flexdashboard} 📊
  
• Right as I was working on it, Quarto released its own dashboard format
  
• Decided to convert my project to a Quarto dashboard

## Teaching: Python & R

### The Game-Changer: HTML Live Extension

- In September, Quarto introduced HTML Live, an extension that allows you to run R and Python side by side on a website.

### Website

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Staff Survey Report

• Generated some graphs inPython

Finally: These Slides 🎉

• Link to Slides

Future Plans:

• Try out book option

Thank You!

• Questions? Let’s discuss!