Solutions for data-driven publications
Overview
Introduction to Quarto
Hands-on exercise with Quarto and Github
A glimpse of other data-driven publication formats
Link for this presentation: https://belisards.github.io/jdc-workshop
What is Quarto?
Quarto
The state-of-the-art of open-source solutions for publishing data-driven documents.
Easily combine text, code, images, dynamic charts and more.
Go from plain text to reproducible reports, presentations (like this one), dashboards, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more.
How does it look?
Let’s see Quarto’s main features on its website.
Example of a Quarto document
Some use cases scenarios
Create reproducible reports for others (and for yourself!)
Combine with Github to write data analysis reports collaboratively
Automate the publication of periodic reports using data that changes over time
Create a report template and automate its application across different data sources
Create a website for technical documentation
Working with Quarto
Edit Quarto documents using R Studio, Jupyter Notebooks or VS Code.
Render to single files, such as PDF, DOCX and PPT, or use a web-based service to publish Quarto documents.
Github, RPubs Posit (former R Studio Cloud) are common web-based alternatives.
Hands-on exercise
Editing a Quarto document
Let’s edit a Quarto document and render it using R Studio.
- Clone the Github repository to your local machine
- In R Studio: click on “File”, then “Open Project” and locate the project
- Render the project
- Change the data source (line 69) for:
peru_host_mig.csvorchile_host_mig.csvand render the project again - Notice how the text rendered automatically changes
Other data-driven publication formats
Scrollytelling
For web-based presentations.
Geo-based narratives
Leveraging the power of maps to contextualize data.
Customized stories
Put the readers in the center of your narrative.
Extra resources
Boilerplate code to create Quarto presentations: https://github.com/belisards/quarto_presentation/
Quarto website: https://quarto.org
Link for this presentation: https://belisards.github.io/jdc-workshop
Code of this presentation: https://github.com/belisards/jdc-workshop
Want to know more?
Drop me a message on Teams or reach me via email.
📧 abelisario ( at ) worldbank ( dot ) org
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