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#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

February 09, 2025 01:05:01 12.06 MB ( 50.43 MB less) Downloads: 0
In this episode, I'm joined by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to explore Quarto, an open-source tool revolutionizing technical publishing. We discuss how Quarto empowers users to seamlessly transform Jupyter notebooks into polished reports, dashboards, e-books, websites, and more. JJ shares his journey from creating RStudio to developing Quarto as a versatile, multi-language tool, while Carlos delves into its roots in reproducibility and the challenges of academic publishing. Don't miss this deep dive into a tool that's shaping the future of data-driven storytelling!

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Links from the show

JJ Allaire
JJ on LinkedIn: linkedin.com
JJ on GitHub: github.com

Carlos Scheidegger
Personal site: cscheid.net
Mastodon: @scheidegger

Fast AI: fast.ai
nbdev: nbdev.fast.ai
nbsanity - Share Notebooks as Polished Web Pages in Seconds: answer.ai
Pandoc: pandoc.org
Observable: github.com
Quarto Pub: quartopub.com
Deno: deno.com
Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net
Typst: typst.app
Github Actions for Quarto: github.com
Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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