Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

Learn how to build reusable report templates in Quarto that generate multiple outputs (PDF, HTML, Word documents) from a single source document. By defining parameters — such as a region, time period, or data source — you can produce dozens or even hundreds of tailored reports without duplicating code or copy-pasting results.

This is especially useful for cross-border investigations, where partners share a common dataset, but each team needs a report focused on its own country. Build the analysis once, then render a customized version for each partner with only their slice of the data.

To follow along, participants should have basic familiarity with Quarto, R Markdown, or Jupyter notebooks, and some experience writing code in R or Python.