2025-09-30 –, Louis Armand 1 - Est
See how Quarto can transform your Jupyter notebooks into stakeholder-ready web pages or PDFs, published online with just one command. This session features practical demonstrations of publishing with quarto publish, applying custom styles tailored to your organization thanks to brand.yml, and leveraging new features for reproducible research.
Designed for anyone looking to share their work, this talk requires only basic Python and notebook familiarity. You’ll walk away with the skills to elevate your reporting workflow and share insights professionally.
About the Content
Quarto offers a modern, open-source solution for turning exploratory analyses into polished, professionally formatted reports—bridging the gap between technical notebooks and stakeholder-ready deliverables. Many Python users seek ways to make their Jupyter notebooks more visually appealing and accessible to a broad audience. This talk demonstrates how Quarto streamlines the publishing process with a seamless workflow and powerful customization features, enabling you to elevate your reports for any stakeholder.
Why This Talk?
The PyData community frequently uses Jupyter notebooks to share and communicate data-driven insights. Quarto builds on these workflows by making it easy to publish notebooks in multiple styled formats, all with a single command. This session will introduce these enhanced capabilities through hands-on demonstrations and actionable examples.
Who Should Attend?
This talk is ideal for anyone looking to share their work—from individual practitioners to teams—whether with colleagues, stakeholders, or the broader community. Only basic familiarity with Python and notebooks is required; all concepts will be demonstrated live.
Outline
- Introduction: Sharing notebook analyses—challenges and opportunities
- Demo: Publishing a Jupyter notebook online with
quarto publish - Demo: Instantly generating print-ready PDFs using Typst
- Demo: Applying organizational styles with
brand.ymlfor consistent HTML and PDF output - Q&A / Resources: How to get started and where to learn more
Resources
- About Quarto: https://quarto.org/
- Publishing with Quarto: https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/
- Styling with Brand.yml: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/brand.html
- Brand.yml generic specification: https://posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/
Christophe Dervieux is an open source software engineer at Posit PBC, where he has worked for five years as a core developer on Quarto. With over a decade of experience using data science tools for publication—including previous work with R Markdown in the R community—Christophe brings deep expertise in reproducible research and technical communication. He is an active contributor to the open source ecosystem and is passionate about helping data practitioners of all levels share their work more effectively and reproducibly.