Welcome to Quarto: From course notes to journal articles to books

2:05 - 2:25

Introduce Quarto from the lens of an educator, highlighting aspects of Quarto that facilitate teaching and learning reproducible data science as well as that improve the lives of educators.
Author

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Abstract

Quarto is a reproducible authoring system that unifies and extends the R Markdown ecosystem and enables you to weave together your code and prose to create documents, presentations, websites, books, and even journal articles. In this talk we will introduce Quarto from the lens of an educator, highlighting aspects of Quarto that facilitate teaching and learning reproducible data science as well as that improve the lives of educators.

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Speaker

Photo of Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professor of the Practice at Duke University and Developer Educator at Posit. Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on integrating computation into the undergraduate statistics curriculum, using reproducible research methodologies and analysis of real and complex datasets. Mine works on the OpenIntro project, whose mission is to make educational products that are free, transparent, and lower barriers to education. As part of this project she co-authored four open-source introductory statistics textbooks. She is also the creator and maintainer of datasciencebox.org and she teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera. Mine is a Fellow of the ASA and Elected Member of the ISI as well as the winner of the 2021 Robert V. Hogg Award for For Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics. In 2023, she is the Chair of the ASA Section on Statistical Computing.