The Quest for the Golden Data Toolkit
A semester-finale class adventure in RStudio + Quarto
What is this quest?
This is not a test. There are no wrong answers.
This is an end-of-semester discovery class β a chance to see what becomes possible when you combine the tidyverse and tidymodels skills you already have with Quarto, the publishing system built into RStudio.
By the end of the hour you will have seen the same workflow produce a polished report, a slide deck, and a navigable website β all from a single .qmd file. That is the Golden Data Toolkit.
βThe analyst who masters this workflow stops being someone who works with data and becomes someone who communicates with it.β
The five quest stages
Stage 1
Quarto + RStudio fundamentals
Stage 2
Exploratory data analysis
Stage 3
Tidymodels + diagnostics
Stage 4
Revealjs presentation
Stage 5
Final chamber + reveal
The artefact map
| File | Role in the quest | What you discover |
|---|---|---|
demo.qmd |
π§ Field guide | YAML, chunks, callouts, inline R |
report.qmd |
π Analysis log | EDA, ggplot, tidymodels, diagnostics |
slides.qmd |
π½οΈ Briefing deck | revealjs, columns, fragments |
missions.qmd |
π Final chamber | All four fragments β Golden Toolkit |
notes.qmd |
π Command centre | Timing guide + facilitation notes |
Why the Golden Data Toolkit matters
The best data analysts do not just analyse β they explain, visualise, and publish.
Quarto makes all three parts of that workflow live in the same file,
updated by the same code, rendered with a single command.
That is what makes it a toolkit, and what makes it golden.
π΄ββ οΈ Fragment #0 β The freebie: Every Quarto document begins with a β block. That block is called the YAML header. It controls everything about the output. Hold onto this Quarto (qmd)
Open demo.qmd to begin β π§ Stage 1: Demo Guide
