DiscoverTalk Python To Me#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing
#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

Update: 2025-02-09
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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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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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#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)