Are you or your team spending too much time producing recurring reports? Are your reports difficult to reproduce, maintain and keep up to date? Quarto — Posit's successor to R Markdown — might be the perfect tool for you. The freely available, open-source publishing framework excels at turning data and analytical outputs into automated, reproducible reporting.

In this webinar, our team at Epi will show you how Quarto helps users create reports, articles, presentations and web-based publications directly from analytical workflows. We’ll show how it can easily be integrated into existing data environment and reduce the manual effort involved in producing regular scientific and technical outputs.

We will share applied examples from our recent work developing automated reporting for freshwater ecosystem health monitoring. This will include both regional and national summary reports generated directly from complex and bespoke analytics.

Finally, we will look at where automated reporting fits within a broader data and reporting strategy. In what scenarios is Quarto the right tool, when more interactive R Shiny applications are the better choice and how the two can be used alongside each other to maximise impact.