{"id":800,"date":"2022-12-01T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/?p=800"},"modified":"2023-01-10T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T20:09:45","slug":"publishing-analytics-with-quarto-dr-stephan-koenig-dec-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2022\/12\/01\/publishing-analytics-with-quarto-dr-stephan-koenig-dec-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Analytics with Quarto &#8211; Dr. Stephan Koenig (Dec 1, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>In this LAVA session, Dr. Stephan Koenig will be leading us through the use of the open source publication tool, Quarto.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation slides from this session can be found at:<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stephan-koenig.github.io\/lava-quarto\/\">https:\/\/stephan-koenig.github.io\/lava-quarto\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h6><strong>From Stephan:<\/strong><\/h6>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div><b class=\"\" style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Description:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">An essential part of analytics is the communication of insights to colleagues and stakeholders. In this LAVA session, we will look at\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/quarto.org\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/quarto.org\/\">Quarto<\/a>, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that combines code and its outputs with descriptive text and exports them to many formats, including HTML, PDF and MS Word. We will cover standard tools to author Quarto documents, how to format them using Markdown, and how to include code with R as an example (Python and Julia are also supported).<\/div>\n<h5><b class=\"\">Preparation (entirely optional):<\/b><\/h5>\n<div class=\"\">We will briefly cover Markdown but will only have time to go over some things in the basic syntax. If you would like to familiarize yourself with Markdown beforehand, here is an excellent interactive tutorial (10\u201320 min): <a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/commonmark.org\/help\/tutorial\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/commonmark.org\/help\/tutorial\/\">https:\/\/commonmark.org\/help\/tutorial\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">If you would like to work along the session to create a Quarto document, you have two options:<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">1) Use a cloud-based system by creating<span class=\"\">\u00a0a free posit Cloud account (recommended, formerly RStudio Cloud)<\/span>:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/posit.cloud\/plans\/free\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/posit.cloud\/plans\/free\">https:\/\/posit.cloud\/plans\/free<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Then check if you can open this project:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/posit.cloud\/content\/4332583\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/posit.cloud\/content\/4332583\">https:\/\/posit.cloud\/content\/4332583<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">2) Perform a local install following the pre-work instructions of this official Quarto workshop:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/rstudio-conf-2022.github.io\/get-started-quarto\/#pre-work\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/rstudio-conf-2022.github.io\/get-started-quarto\/#pre-work\">https:\/\/rstudio-conf-2022.github.io\/get-started-quarto\/#pre-work<\/a><\/div>\n<h5><b class=\"\">Official resources:<\/b><\/h5>\n<div class=\"\">Official Quarto website:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/quarto.org\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/quarto.org\/\">https:\/\/quarto.org\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">YouTube: Welcome to Quarto Workshop!: <a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yvi5uXQMvu4\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yvi5uXQMvu4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yvi5uXQMvu4<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Get started with Quarto Workshop:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/rstudio-conf-2022.github.io\/get-started-quarto\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/rstudio-conf-2022.github.io\/get-started-quarto\/\">https:\/\/rstudio-conf-2022.github.io\/get-started-quarto\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Workshop material:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jthomasmock\/quarto-workshop\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jthomasmock\/quarto-workshop\">https:\/\/github.com\/jthomasmock\/quarto-workshop<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><b class=\"\">About Myself<\/b><\/h5>\n<p>Stephan previously worked as a Postdoctoral Teaching and Learning Fellow in the\u00a0Microbiology and Immunology Department at UBC and coordinated the Experiential Data science for Undergraduate Cross-disciplinary Education (EDUCE)\u00a0program. He designed and delivered data science-focused modules across multiple MICB courses, conducted and analyzed surveys, and\u00a0maintained open education resources. He joined Skylight (Science Centre of Learning and Teaching) as the Science Education Specialist in the Computer Science Department and supports instructors with\u00a0the migration to a new online assessment tool offering students the opportunity to practice with randomized\u00a0questions for mastery learning and more flexibility when scheduling exams in a new computer-based testing\u00a0facility. He focuses on the impact of learning technologies on student learning, well-being and inclusivity and\u00a0how their implementation and course design should inform each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this LAVA session, Dr. Stephan Koenig will be leading us through the use of the open source publication tool, Quarto. Presentation slides from this session can be found at:https:\/\/stephan-koenig.github.io\/lava-quarto\/\u00a0\u00a0 From Stephan: Description: An essential part of analytics is the communication of insights to colleagues and stakeholders. In this LAVA session, we will look at\u00a0Quarto, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2022\/12\/01\/publishing-analytics-with-quarto-dr-stephan-koenig-dec-1-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publishing Analytics with Quarto &#8211; Dr. Stephan Koenig (Dec 1, 2022)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}