π₯οΈ Week 03, Day 03 - Lecture
Demos and Recipes: Dashboards, Responsible Reporting, and Quarto
By the end of todayβs lecture, you should be able to: i) Describe the sequence a data report follows, from the question you asked through to what you found and what it adds up to, ii) Judge whether a chart still makes its finding clear on its own, away from the writing that introduced it, iii) Write about a pattern in your data without implying that one thing caused another, iv) Build and render a Quarto page with quarto render, and say how that differs from the GitHub Pages setup you already have.
β° Wednesday, 29 July 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm π CBG.2.01 (see LSEβs πΊοΈ campus map)
On Monday you pulled a table out of a web page, and yesterday you joined tables in SQL. Your data collection should be finished, or nearly so. Today we turn to what you do with what you found: how a report is put together, how to write about a pattern without claiming one thing caused another, and how to publish a page other people can open.
π£οΈ Lecture Overview
- Final project support: work on your project with help from me and your class teacher
- Coffee break
- Learning to tell a story with data: the sequence a report follows from question to conclusion, read against two published pieces, and the test of whether a chart still states its finding clearly when it appears on its own
- A word of caution: writing about a pattern you found without claiming one thing caused another
- Publishing your story with Quarto: what GitHub Pages already gives you, then building and rendering
docs/index.qmdin front of the class, seeing the HTML it generates, and adding scrollytelling with Closeread - Wrap-up: where you want to be by tonight, and the final project deadline
π¬ Lecture Slides
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After the Lecture
This afternoon you decide which of todayβs routes your own project will take: Markdown in docs/ with a Jekyll theme, a single HTML file you asked a chatbot to write, or a Quarto page you render yourself. Then you work on your charts and your website, with your class teacher there to help you.
π» This Afternoon
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π Quarto Resources