What's up with Quarto?

[hannah cushman garland]

Background

We've transitioned from Python to R and R Markdown for data analysis, however it looks like there's a new player on the block that supports Python, R, and Observable (JavaScript) out of the box: https://quarto.org/

Proposal

Is it desirable to have a single development environment for all of our data analysis languages? I propose we trial Quarto to find out.

Deliverables

A data analysis project completed in Quarto. The project should, if possible, include multiple languages, and both analysis and visualization.

Timeline

Couple of days.

[Forest Gregg]

@hancush has been impressed with this on a recent project.

for a recent project i worked on, i needed to produce power point slides, and rMarkdown did a really bad job. it's a pretty common need of our clients to need slides and to have those slides be ppt compatible.

i asked on social media if other tools did a better job, and I got one suggestion for Quarto. so, I think that it would be worth trying out. https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/powerpoint.html