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πŸ–₯️ Week 03, Day 03 - Lecture

Demos and Recipes: Dashboards, Responsible Reporting, and Quarto

Author

Dr Jon Cardoso-Silva

Last updated

29 July 2026

πŸ₯… Learning Objectives

By the end of today’s 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.

⏰ Wednesday, 29 July 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm πŸ“ CBG.2.01 (see LSE’s πŸ—ΊοΈ 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.

πŸ—£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.qmd in 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

🎬 Lecture Slides

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After the Lecture

This afternoon you decide which of today’s 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.

πŸ’» This Afternoon

πŸ’» Working on Charts and Website: pick your publishing route, then work on your project with your class teacher.

Questions?

Come find us during the lab or email me.

πŸ”— Quarto Resources

References if you want to explore further.