Rosie’s posit::conf(2024) notes

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Highlights

• Quarto Updates
  • Quarto Dashboards make it easy to create interactive dashboards using Python, R, Julia, and Observable [Link]
    • [Relevant material]: Keynote notes: [Link] | Workshop notes: [Link]
  • Quarto + Typst is the future of PDF; faster/better rendering and easier code [Link]
    • Better tables with Quarto + Typst
      • Beautiful Tables in Typst – Quarto [Link]
      • Quarto now allows HTML Tables with CSS styling (e.g., tables created by the gt package) to be output in Typst by translating CSS properties into Typst properties
    • Example report from Quarto + Typst: PBC report [Link]
    • [Relevant material]: Keynote notes: [Link] | Session notes: [Link]
  • New Quarto Extensions [Link]
    • Closeread: Interactive, scroll-based scrollytelling [Link | GitHub]
      • [Relevant material]: Session notes: [Link]
    • Quarto Live: Interactive code snippets/exercises powered by WebAssembly + Observable JS (useful for educational materials) [Link | GitHub]
      • [Relevant material]: Keynote notes: [Link]
• Positron is a next-generation data science IDE that is multilingual/polyglot (built on VS Code with an interactive data editor) [Link | GitHub]
  • [Relevant material]: Session notes: [Link]
• gt / Great Tables Package for tables [R | Python]
  • Works for PDF outputs (LaTeX/Typst)
  • [Relevant material]: Session notes: [Link] | Workshop notes: [Link]