About the workshop
This in-person workshop will show you how to easily create beautiful scientific documents (html, pdf, websites, books…)—complete with formatted text, dynamic code, and figures. We will first cover the simple and ubiquitous markdown syntax, then introduce you to Quarto (https://quarto.org/), an open-source tool combining the powers of Jupyter and Pandoc to turn your text and code blocks into fully dynamic and formatted documents.
Requirements
Device and software installation
- Bring your own laptop.
- To participate in this workshop, you will need a text editor (e.g. Emacs, Vim, Sublime, Visual Studio Code, Nano), quarto (install from: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/), Python (install from: https://www.python.org/downloads/), and Jupyter (see installation instructions at: https://quarto.org/docs/computations/python.html#installation).
Prerequisites
None.
Facilitator
Marie-Hélène Burle
Marie-Helene Burle (SFU Research Computing / Digital Research Alliance of Canada). Prior to entering the realm of computing, Marie-Helene Burle spent 15 years roaming the globe from the High Arctic to uninhabited Sub-Antarctic islands or desert tropical atolls, conducting bird and mammal research (she calls those her "years running after penguins"). As a PhD candidate in behavioural and evolutionary biology at Simon Fraser University, she "fell" into Emacs, R, and Linux. This turned Marie into an advocate for open source tools and improved computing literacy for all, as well as better coding practices and more reproducible workflows in science. She started to contribute to the open source community, became a Software and Data Carpentry Instructor, and worked at the SFU Research Commons providing programming support to researchers. When not behind a computer, Marie loves reading history books and looking for powder in the British Columbia backcountry on skis.