ETC5523: Communicating with Data

Tutorial 4

🎯 Objectives

• use Quarto for creating reproducible documents
• make blog websites using Quarto
• share webpage and websites on public domains with Quarto Pubs, GitHub Pages or Netlify

Preparation

1. Install the latest RStudio IDE
2. Install the latest Quarto CLI
3. (Optional) Make a (free) account at https://quartopub.com/ if you want to share your website via Quarto Pub.
4. (Optional) Make a (free) account at https://www.netlify.com/ if you want to share your website via Netlify.

Note: there will be no tutorial solution this week as the task is about getting you set up for making a website using Quarto.

🌐️ Exercise 4A

Construct a data story using Quarto

Using your data from the Shiny Assessment or another data, write an aspect of the data that you found interesting in a qmd file with HTML output format.

---
title: "My story title"
author: "Your name"
format: html
---

Write this story in a qmd file with a HTML output
Render this qmd file

🌐️ Exercise 4B

Make a blog website using Quarto

Create a blog website with Quarto, as shown in lecture recording. Add the data story you constructed in Exercise 4A as a blog post.

Make a Quarto blog website
Add one blog post

🌐️ Exercise 4C

Publish your blog website

Publish your blog website constructed in Exercise 4B using either Quarto Pub, GitHub Pages or Netlify.

Upload this to a GitHub repo
Publish this on the web