Meetup: 28 May 2025: Creating simple websites with Quarto + GitHub Pages
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Time: Wed, May 28, 2024
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM AEST
Location: DiUS (3/31 Queen Street, Melbourne) and Online (Zoom)
About the Event
Want to build your own website in minutes? Join us to learn how to create a simple, stylish website using Quarto, and publish it for free with GitHub Pages! πβ¨ Perfect for portfolios, blogs, or project pages β no experience needed. You could make something like the RLadies Melbourne website or WEHIβs intro to R coursebook!
π Workshop details: π 28th of May π 5:30-6:00pm (in-person networking & refreshments) π 6:00pm-7:30pm (hybrid workshop) π DiUS 3/31 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000 or Online (zoom link posted on the day)
π Before the workshop: β Install RStudio or R + Quarto CLI β Create a GitHub account (if you donβt have one yet) β Bring your laptop and curiosity β weβll handle the rest!
Speakers: Danyang Dai & Kathleen Zeglinski
Danyang Dai (Daidai) is a third-year PhD candidate at the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC) at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on advancing population health outcomes in the post-COVID-19 era. With a strong academic background in Econometrics and Biostatistics, Daidai is also a passionate advocate for the R programming language. She has actively contributed to the academic and professional communities through her involvement with organizations such as R-Ladies Melbourne and by creating educational resources for R programming.
Kathleen is a postdoc at WEHI, focusing on antibody bioinformatics and long-read sequencing. She is particularly interested in developing software pipelines to empower biologists to analyse their own data. Kathleen is also a co-convenor of the WEHI R course and passionate about R education.
We look forward to seeing you there!
π Kathleen on behalf of R-Ladies Melbourne