Mini-Project 3: Building a Personal Quarto Webpage

Overview

We will create our own personal quarto webpages to give you a forum for showing your data science portfolio, featuring projects from SDS 264 in addition to things you’ve worked on in other classes, independently, etc.

We will follow the excellent set of instructions prepared by Samantha Csik and others as part of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management’s Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS) program.

I have found success starting at the top of working my way carefully through the steps outlined. I cannot emphasize this enough: be sure to NOT speed through the steps, but follow even the small, subtle suggestions, and stop and appreciate the useful insights given at various points in the process! Continue all the way through the end of the website!

Big Picture

• We’ll create .qmd files filled with the content of our website, styling the content with markdown (same as Rmd files).
• We’ll render the .qmd files into .html files that we can host on a web server like GitHub Pages.
• Most people will create and publish a personal website using GitHub that is named username.github.io; in that case, you’ll have a website folder and a folder on your own computer both named username.github.io (e.g. proback.github.io).

Specifics

You will publish a personal quarto webpage that contains basic information about yourself, as well as a menu bar that contains, at a minimum, a link to your work from Mini-Project 1 on maps and Mini-Project 2 on data acquisition, and a link to your source code on GitHub.

Here is a pretty basic example that I put together. I’m hoping you’ll put together something more impressive – taking advantage of features in quarto to create a look that you’re excited about and an organization and layout that cleanly highlights your good work. Check out this rubric for Mini-Project 3.

Submission and Timeline

Mini-Project 3 must be submitted on moodle by 11:00 PM on Fri Nov 1. All I need is a url for your webpage, which should then have a link to your R code in GitHub. If you choose not to make your webpage public at this time, please add me as a collaborator to your GitHub repository so that I can see your code and generate your webpage.

Additional Information

Quarto Website Resources:

• Quarto Websites
• YAML basics in Quarto
• Creating Data Science Portfolios

Inspiration

The following Data Science sites were created with Quarto:

• https://bcheggeseth.github.io/temp_website/
• https://bcheggeseth.github.io/
  
• https://allisonhorst.github.io/
• https://samanthacsik.github.io/
• https://www.andreashandel.com/
• https://blog.djnavarro.net/ [published with Github but pushed to a custom domain]
• https://deepshamenghani.quarto.pub/dmenghani/ [published with Quarto pubs]

Code Examples [if you see something in the sites above, try and find their github repo]:

• https://github.com/bcheggeseth/temp_website
• https://github.com/bcheggeseth/bcheggeseth.github.io
• https://github.com/allisonhorst/allisonhorst.github.io
• https://github.com/samanthacsik/samanthacsik.github.io
• https://github.com/andreashandel/andreashandelwebsite