From Journalist to Coder: Creating a Web Publication with Quarto

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Built the site with Quarto, Visual Studio Code and GitHub Pages + Actions, moving from local demo to a live site since March 2022. The publication uses a community-maintained Quarto template and a contributor-created example document; it avoids slow live code rendering by using figures rendered as images. Current stats: 50 articles, 19 GitHub contributors, about 12,000 users and 40,000 views. Implementation also requires custom CSS work and ongoing GitHub Actions troubleshooting for continuous deploys at RealWorldDataScience.net.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:14The challenge
3. 1:12Overcoming obstacles
4. 1:57Discovering Quarto
5. 2:59Site goals
6. 3:43Learning new tools
7. 4:51Building the demo
8. 5:51Deployment
9. 6:46Inspiration from examples
10. 7:39Collaborative publishing
11. 8:57Site launch and content
12. 10:02Community contributions
13. 11:14Technical hurdles
14. 12:35Giving back
15. 13:30Reflections
16. 14:45Results and conclusion
17. 15:37Q&A session

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