Data science stakeholder communication is hard. The typical explanation of this is to parody data scientists as “too technical” to communicate with their audiences. But I’ve always found it unsatisfying to believe that “being technical” makes it too challenging to connect with the 0.1% of the population so similar to ourselves that we all happen to work in the same organization. Instead, I believe communication is rarely taught intentionally and, worse, is modeled poorly by educatio...| Emily Riederer
Literate programming tools like R Markdown and Quarto make it easy to convert analyses into aesthetic documents, dashbaords, and websites for public sharing. But what if you don’t want your results too public? I recently was working on a project that required me to set up a large number of dashboards with similar content but different data for about 10 small, separate organizations. As I considered by tech stack, I found that many Quarto users were asking similar questions, but understandab...| Emily Riederer
Hadley Wickham takes Tracy Teal through the evolution of the tidyverse, starting with a box of rocks all the way through to a thriving community of data scientists. Join them on the Open Source Story of the tidyverse!| Open Source Stories
It has been a while since I have posted anything new to this site. I had a pretty good pace of posting going for a while and then things got busy, a pandemic occurred, and I moved a couple of times, and somehow it has now been four years since I have made a new post. Every couple of months I would get the itch to write something new, but I just never got around to doing it. But now I hoping to make a concerted effort to revitalize the blog. There are two main reasons for doing so now: an inte...| A Rogue Historian
I have posted on Github my notes on creating a word template to use with quarto. And since Quarto is just feeding into pandoc, those who are just using pandoc (so not doing intermediate computation…| Andrew Wheeler
We have migrated our blog from Hugo to Quarto! Here are a few quick tips that made the transition a bit smoother. 1. Setting up a Quarto website It is super easy to set up a Quarto website. To get the basic template, you can run the following in your terminal: quarto create-project mysite --type website You can find lots of details about how to customize your site in the Quarto Docs. The rest of this post will cover a few things that made the transition smooth for us. 2. Moving .Rmd files fro...|
Quarto doesn’t add anchor links to equations by default, but you can add them yourself| msmith.de