04-27, 16:15–17:00 (America/Los_Angeles), Rainier
Quarto is a multi-language, open-source toolkit for creating data-driven websites, reports, presentations, and scientific articles. Quarto is built on Jupyter, and in this talk we'll demonstrate using Quarto to publish Jupyter notebooks as production quality websites, books, blogs, presentations, PDFs, Office documents, and more. We'll also cover how to publish notebooks within existing content management systems like Hugo, Docusaurus, and Confluence. Finally, we'll explore how Quarto works under the hood along with how the system can be extended to accommodate unique requirements and workflows.
Research and data science isn’t just experiments and code, it’s also communicating about our results, creating reports, sharing analyses, and teaching. To communicate effectively, we need to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted, interactive output. Not only does it need to look great, but it needs to be reproducible, accessible, easily editable, diffable, version controlled and output in a variety of formats, such as PDF, HTML and MS Word. Jupyter has already made so much of this possible! The open-source publishing platform, Quarto, combines with Jupyter (and an optional VS Code extension) to produce the output format and styling that’s needed for any situation. You can author documents as plain text markdown or Jupyter notebooks with scientific markdown, including equations (LaTeX support!), citations, cross references, figure panels, callouts, advanced layouts, and more.
Quarto is a markdown format that adds executable Python code blocks and build on top of Pandoc to produce a variety of output documents. This allows you to create fully reproducible documents and reports—the Python code required to produce your output is part of the document itself, and is automatically re-run whenever the document is rendered. This means you can create documents as plain text markdown or Jupyter notebooks that can be easily rendered into presentations, websites and manuscripts in a variety of journal formats. You can also engage readers by adding interactive data exploration to your documents using Jupyter Widgets, htmlwidgets for R, Observable JS, and Shiny.
In this talk, I’ll discuss how to author these dynamic, computational documents with Quarto and Python, showing how to get started and highlighting a few key features. I’ll walk through how to use a single source document to target multiple formats - transforming a simple document into a presentation, a scientific manuscript, a website, a blog, and a book in a variety of formats including HTML, PDF and MS Word. I'll also cover how to publish notebooks within existing content management systems like Hugo, Docusaurus, and Confluence. Finally, we'll explore how Quarto works under the hood along with how the system can be extended to accommodate unique requirements and workflows.
No previous knowledge expected
J.J. Allaire is the founder of RStudio (now Posit) and the creator of the RStudio IDE. J.J. is an author of several packages in the R Markdown publishing ecosystem including rmarkdown, flexdashboard, learnr, and distill, and also worked extensively on the R interfaces to Python and TensorFlow. J.J. is now leading the Quarto project, which is a new Jupyter-based scientific and technical publishing system.