Project title

STA/ISS 313L - Spring 2026 - Project 1

Team name

Using Quarto for presentations

Quarto

  • The presentation is created using the Quarto CLI

  • ## sets the start of a new slide

Layouts

You can use plain text

  • or bullet points

or text in two columns \(^*\)

  • like
  • this

Code, hidden

Model output:

# A tibble: 2 × 5
  term              estimate std.error statistic   p.value
  <chr>                <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>
1 (Intercept)        -5781.     306.       -18.9 5.59e- 55
2 flipper_length_mm     49.7      1.52      32.7 4.37e-107

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You probably won’t want to do too much of this, but if there’s something specific you want to show about your code…

glance(model)
# A tibble: 1 × 12
  r.squared adj.r.squared sigma statistic   p.value    df logLik   AIC   BIC
      <dbl>         <dbl> <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1     0.759         0.758  394.     1071. 4.37e-107     1 -2528. 5063. 5074.
# ℹ 3 more variables: deviance <dbl>, df.residual <int>, nobs <int>

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Or have the option to show:

Code 
glance(model)
# A tibble: 1 × 12
  r.squared adj.r.squared sigma statistic   p.value    df logLik   AIC   BIC
      <dbl>         <dbl> <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1     0.759         0.758  394.     1071. 4.37e-107     1 -2528. 5063. 5074.
# ℹ 3 more variables: deviance <dbl>, df.residual <int>, nobs <int>

Plots

Body mass vs. flipper lenght of Palmer Penguins for species Adelie and all the others combined together. There is a relatively strong, positive relationship between the two variables. The Adelie penguins are clustered together but they don't exhibit a different trend than the rest of the penguins.

Plot and text

  • Some text
  • goes here

A new section…

Tables

If you want to generate a table, make sure it is in the HTML format (instead of Markdown or other formats), e.g.,

species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_mm body_mass_g sex year
Adelie Torgersen 39.1 18.7 181 3750 male 2007
Adelie Torgersen 39.5 17.4 186 3800 female 2007
Adelie Torgersen 40.3 18.0 195 3250 female 2007
Adelie Torgersen NA NA NA NA NA 2007
Adelie Torgersen 36.7 19.3 193 3450 female 2007
Adelie Torgersen 39.3 20.6 190 3650 male 2007

Images

Image credit: Johannes Uiga. CC0. https://unsplash.com/photos/rJ3iNrYaWNk

Math Expressions

You can write LaTeX math expressions inside a pair of dollar signs, e.g. $+$ renders \(\alpha+\beta\). You can use the display style with double dollar signs:

$$\bar{X}=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^nX_i$$

\[\bar{X}=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^nX_i\]

Limitations:

  1. The source code of a LaTeX math expression must be in one line, unless it is inside a pair of double dollar signs, in which case the starting $$ must appear in the very beginning of a line, followed immediately by a non-space character, and the ending $$ must be at the end of a line, led by a non-space character;

  2. There should not be spaces after the opening $ or before the closing $.

Smaller text

Sometimes you have too much text and it doesn’t fit in the slide. This is likely bad practice, but if you feel you must squeeze it in, you can add {.smaller} next to the slide title to make the text smaller. There are ways of making it even smaller, don’t go down that path!

This is what ChatGPT says about how much of a bad practice it is, just to fill up this slide…

A slide full of text is ineffective because it overwhelms the audience and forces them to read and listen at the same time, which significantly reduces comprehension. When people see a dense block of words, their attention shifts away from the speaker and toward the slide, causing them to miss key explanations or emphasis. In addition, text-heavy slides often result in small fonts and cluttered layouts that are hard to read, especially from a distance, making the presentation feel tiring and uninviting.

Furthermore, slides packed with text diminish the role of the presenter. If everything is written out, the speaker adds little value and may end up reading directly from the slide, which feels monotonous and disengaging. Effective slides should highlight key ideas, visuals, or prompts that support what is being said, not act as a script. By keeping slides concise and visually focused, presenters improve clarity, maintain audience attention, and make their message more memorable.

Wrap up

Feeling adventurous?

  • You are welcomed to use the default styling of the slides. In fact, that’s what I expect majority of you will do. You will differentiate yourself with the content of your presentation.

  • But some of you might want to play around with slide styling. Some solutions for this can be found at: