Presentations

SciPy 2024: Unlocking Dynamic Reproducible Documents
A Quarto Tutorial for Scientific Communication

Mine Çetinkaya Rundel

Duke University + Posit PBC

Anatomy of a Quarto presentation

Components

1. Metadata: YAML

2. Text: Markdown

3. Code: Executed via jupyter (or knitr)

Weave it all together, and you have a beautiful, functional slide deck!

Our turn

Let’s build a presentation together from hello-penguins-slides.qmd and showcase the following features of Quarto presentations:

• Hierarchy, headers, and document outline
• Incremental lists
• Columns
• Code, output location, code highlighting
• Logo and footer
• Making things fit on a slide
• Chalkboard
• Multiplex
• Publishing your presentation to Quarto Pub

Your turn

Pick up where we left off and

• Change the transition style between slides
• Change the slide size
• Add slide numbers

05:00

Our turn

Let’s continue building our a presentation together from hello-penguins-slides.qmd and showcase the fragments with .fragment and fragment-index=n.

Wrap up

Quarto presentation formats

• revealjs - essentially the replacement for xaringan, but with Pandoc-native syntax

• beamer for LaTeX slides

• PowerPoint for when you have to collaborate via MS Office

Wrap up

Learn more

quarto.org/docs/presentations

Questions

Any questions / anything you’d like to review before we wrap up this module?