The Future of
Scientific Writing and Publishing

Weaving code and science with Quarto

— Trang Lê, PhD

     Data scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb

     openalexR, pmlb, treeheatr @trangdata

     trang.page

Thank You!

Every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.

1869

1880

  • 1991: arXiv is launched.

  • 2003: The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is founded.

  • 2011: Sci-Hub is born.

  • 2012: Innovative journals, F1000 Research, PeerJ, and eLife, are launched

    • October 2022: eLife is eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review, instead focusing on public reviews and assessments of preprints.

  • 2022: OpenAlex is born.

  • beyond the traditional peer-review: blogs, books, presentations, etc.

 

programming language
+
documentation language

literate programming

data + analysis code

interpretation

Jupyter

.ipynb

Rmarkdown

.Rmd

Quarto

.qmd

---
title: "My first qmd"
format: html
---

## Quarto

To learn more about Quarto see <https://quarto.org>.

## Running Code

Quarto can render R, Julia, Python, or Observable.
You can embed code like this:

```{julia}
4 ∉ [2, 5, 1]
```

```{python}
4 not in [2, 5, 1]
```

@thomas_mock

many tutorials/resources available

Scientific Writing and Publishing

By Trang Le

Scientific Writing and Publishing

Talk given at Vin University on 2022-12-09

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