#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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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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0:00.0	In this episode, I'm joined by JJ Aller, founder and executive chairman at Posit and Carlos Schidegger,
0:05.5	a software engineer at Posit, to explore Cordo, an open source tool revolutionizing technical publishing.
0:12.1	We discuss how Cordo empowers users to seamlessly transform Jupiter notebooks into polished reports,
0:17.9	dashboards, ebooks, websites, and more.
0:20.6	JJ shares his journey from creating R Studio to developing Cordo as a versatile multilingual
0:25.6	tool while Carlos delves into its roots in reproducibility and the challenges of academic
0:31.4	publishing.
0:32.6	Don't miss the steep dive into the tool that's shaping the future of data-driven storytelling.
0:37.8	This is Talk Python, Me.
0:38.9	Episode 494, recorded December 20th, 2004.
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