Scrollytelling Science with Quarto and Closeread

This repo contains everything used in my R-Ladies presentation "Scrollytelling Science with Quarto and Closeread", including the slides and a working Closeread example you can fork and modify for your own projects.

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📂 Repo Structure

R-Ladies-Closeread/
├── R-Ladies-Closeread.Rproj           # RStudio project for the main presentation
├── index.qmd                          # Quarto Reveal.js slide deck
├── index.html                         # Rendered presentation (can open in browser)
├── style.scss                         # Custom Reveal.js slide styling
├── images/                            # Images used in the slides
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├── Closeread_example/                 # Self-contained scrollytelling demo
│   ├── Closeread_example.qmd          # A minimal Closeread example
│   ├── Closeread_example.html         # Rendered version of the example
│   ├── Closeread_example.Rproj        # RStudio project for the example
│   └── images/                        # Images used in the scrollytelling example

View the slides

You can view the slides at this link; if you prefer, you can open index.html in your browser (or build from index.qmd).

Cheatsheet

Requirements

• Quarto
• A text editor or IDE (e.g. RStudio)

Try the Closeread example

1. Open the Closeread_example/Closeread_example.qmd file in RStudio.
2. In the terminal, type:

quarto add qmd-lab/closeread

2. Knit the file to HTML.
3. Replace the text and images to start building your own scrollytelling page!

More

• My Closeread webpage: Cecilia Baldoni - Projects
• Closeread documentation: Closeread
• Presentation hosted on Github: Slides
• Blogpost I wrote on the talk I gave: Blogpost

About me

Cecilia Baldoni
Postdoctoral researcher · Behavioral ecologist · Visual doodler

Connect with me:
GitHub · LinkedIn · Website

License

MIT License – free to use, fork, and adapt. Please credit if you reuse or build upon the slides or example!