BioC 2022 - Hello, Quarto!

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, PhD., Professor of the Practice at Duke University, Data Scientist and Professional Educator at RStudio, Inc., gives her keynote presentation at the Bioconductor Conference 2022. Dr. Cetinkaya presents Quarto, an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

Dr. Mine began her presentation by introducing Quarto and her personal experience using and teaching it to others. She then continued by giving an overview of the R Markdown ecosystem which includes packages like xaringa, Distill, Blogdown, Rmarkdown, and more. She explained the use of Quarto with these packages along with some other Quarto highlights. Afterward, Dr. Mine gave her first demo of Quarto which included setting up and sharing some handy features. Dr. Mine also gives another demonstration on publishing with Quarto and an overview of the features of collaboration. Dr. Mine then gives a second demonstration of collaborating and teaching with Quarto. To wrap up the presentation, Dr. Mine shared about reimagining open source and the work done by Openscapes and their mission for open practices accelerating data-driven solutions, and increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in science. The presentation ended with a questions and answers session from the audience.

Main Sections

0:00 Introduction
4:29 Quarto!
6:12 Share
10:57 The R Markdown ecosystem
11:59 Quarto highlights
13:40 Demo of Quarto
21:40 Demo Quarto Publishing
22:58 Quarto rundown
25:23 Collaborate
28:43 Demo 2
34:07 Teaching with Quarto
40:39 Reimagine
44:03 Q&A and Resources


More Resources

Bioconductor Conference Site: https://bioc2022.bioconductor.org/
BioC2022 Github: https://github.com/Bioconductor/BioC2022

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