Engage your Reader with Closeread

Andrew Bray Speaker
UC Berkeley
 
Tuesday, Aug 6: 3:20 PM - 3:45 PM
Invited Paper Session 
Oregon Convention Center 
Scrollytelling is a style of web design that transitions graphics and text as a user scrolls, allowing stories to progress naturally. Despite its power, scrollytelling typically requires specialist web dev skills beyond the reach of many data scientists. Closeread is a Quarto extension that makes a wide range of scrollytelling techniques available to authors without traditional web dev experience, with support for cross-fading plots, graphics and other chunk output alongside narrative content. You can zoom in on text, code, and images, and highlighting important components. Finally, Closeread allows authors with experience in Observable JS to write their own animated graphics that update smoothly as scrolling progresses.