Data School poster templates

Attempt at some poster templates based on posterdown with a Data School flavour. To create a poster:

1. Install posterdown At the R-studio interactive prompt, type:

• install.packages("glue")
• install.packages("devtools")
• devtools::install_github("brentthorne/posterdown")

2. Clone this repository to a location on your computer where you would like to make your poster(s).

3. Create a copy of the demo.Rmd file, name it after your specific poster, and edit the content. Note: this needs to be in the same location as the demo.Rmd file.

An example of the output from the demo.Rmd file can be found in the example folder as a PDF. Since the page is built around the A0 scaled background image, printing the page to a PDF from the browser is the best way to see how everything looks at the "right" page size since fiddling around with window sizes on the screen can be difficult.

In addition, if you wish to knit the demo.Rmd directly, you will need to make sure you have the tidyverse, gapminder, gganimate, gifski, png, and kableExtra packages installed. The first time you knit will take a minute or two because of the animation rendering, but this step is cached so will not be run again unless you change the animation code.