Data Science Reporting with Quarto for Python

Course details

Quarto unlocks a complete and powerful data science reporting toolkit, allowing you to build publication-quality reports, engaging presentation decks, and rich interactive webpages from Jupyter Notebook for Python. Without tools like Quarto, you’re likely to face a massive disconnect between your data, reports, and business logic. In this course, instructor Charlie Hadley shows you how Quarto improves not only your existing reporting pipelines but also your ability to deliver data-driven insights across your business in formats that suit your stakeholders’ unique needs.

Learning objectives
Generate print-quality PDF reports, brochures, and other documents with either Typst or LaTeX.
Create company reports and documents as Word documents that use your existing company branding and templates.
Build engaging presentation decks using your existing PowerPoint brand templates, and extend your capabilities with interactive web-based presentation formats.
Craft HTML webpages and entire websites, including built-in, fully featured CMS for blogging.
Build and manage large-scale projects such as books, manuscripts, and dissertations.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Reporting with Quarto and Python
02 - What you should know
03 - Using GitHub Codespaces

1. What Is Quarto For

04 - What is Quarto
05 - What can I make with Quarto
06 - Why would I move from Jupyter to Quarto

2. Setting Up Quarto

07 - Install Quarto on your local machine
08 - Working with Quarto in VS Code
09 - Working with Quarto in JupyterLab
10 - Working with Quarto in GitHub Codespaces

3. Getting Comfortable Working with Quarto

11 - Creating a new Quarto document and rendering it in VS Code
12 - YAML, Markdown, and Python
13 - Structuring and formatting your Quarto text with Markdown
14 - Quarto format dictates how you apply advanced formatting
15 - Writing and running Quarto chunks
16 - Rendering vs. previewing Quarto files

4. Adding Rich Content to Quarto

17 - Using Matplotlib and Plotnine in Quarto
18 - Displaying tables of data in Quarto
19 - Displaying images in Quarto
20 - Inserting calculated values into sentences
21 - Adding captions and cross-references to Quarto
22 - Challenge - Create a rich Quarto report
23 - Solution - Create a rich Quarto report

5. Quarto for MS Office Documents

24 - Why use Quarto to make Microsoft Office docs
25 - Styling .docx files from Quarto with custom Word templates
26 - Tables of contents for .docx files with Quarto
27 - Styling .pptx files from Quarto

6. Quarto for PDF Documents and Slide Decks

28 - Why does Quarto have multiple PDF typesetting choices
29 - Using LaTeX to make PDF with Quarto
30 - Using Typst to make PDF with Quarto

7. Quarto for HTML, Presentations, and Blogs

31 - Quarto can make almost any static web content
32 - Styling Quarto HTML content with SCSS
33 - Consistently brand Quarto HTML content with brand.yml
34 - Rich interactive slide decks in Quarto with Reveal.js
35 - Build beautiful dashboards with Quarto
36 - Where can you deploy HTML and Reveal.js Quarto output

8. Quarto Advice about Extensions, Scripts, and More

37 - Installing and working with Quarto extensions
38 - Running .py scripts from Quarto
39 - Label your code chunks
40 - Understanding how comments work in Quarto docs