Creating and maintaining an online presence is essential for anyone who works with data. Whether you’re a researcher, educator, or analyst, a well-crafted website can serve as your digital calling card, allowing you to showcase your work, share your insights and discoveries, and engage with the broader data analysis community. But building a website from scratch can feel overwhelming, especially if you lack web development experience. Enter Quarto: an open-source publishing tool that makes it easy to create beautiful, accessible, and feature-rich websites using just a few lines of Markdown—no HTML or CSS expertise required!

In this course, you’ll learn how to use Quarto to build a variety of data-focused websites, from personal portfolios and blogs to project-specific sites, research compendiums, and interactive dashboards. You’ll also discover how to customize your site’s design, incorporate computational content from R, Python, and Observable JS, and create interactive elements like live code and data visualizations. By the end of the course, you’ll have a fully functional website ready to publish (for free!) on platforms like GitHub Pages or Netlify. This workshop will give you the tools to share your work with the world—and make it look great!

This course is designed to be hands-on and interactive. While the early exercises will guide you through recreating and adjusting sample websites, you’ll quickly move on to creating a website tailored to your specific needs—a personal website, a project-focused website, a course website, or anything else. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a finished site ready to publish online.