Slides from a presentation
Recently, I did a presentation for my lab group at school, and I wanted to do an "experiment" and try to do everything without PowerPoint.
Crazy you say? Well, I considered some options, and I went ahead and made my presentation using Slidify!!
I was super impressed with Slidify because it was very easy to get started and it uses R Markdown syntax which I have already used for some blog posts. To get started, you just use a textfile and separate the slides using a newline with three dashes "---". After just a few minutes, you can easily start generating HTML output slideshows that work great.
It helps if you have some web design experience to use Slidify also, because you can style Markdown code using CSS. Here is a discussion about how to align images in a markdown document, and I particularly like the second answer. Unfortunately. I had some trouble aligning images too, so I think I could probably do with some practice (see Figure 1)
Figure 1. Example slide from my presentation with a figure that is cutoff. I used the CSS style "float:right" but for some reason it didn't stay on the page.
I also wanted to publish my slides on the web, and found that you can use Slidify to publish to your Github repository using Github Pages. Again, this process was also surprisingly simple: you simply make a branch on your repository that is named "gh-pages" and push all your Slidify slides to it!
The outcome: Comparison and analysis of ChIP-seq experiments
Feel free to check out the slides, and you can also see the code for generating the slides on my Github Branch. Soon, I may also update the code for the slides to generate the figures instead of just linking to figures