Daniel Chen

Hi I’m Daniel. I’m a Lecturer at the University of British Columbia. I primary teach Data Science tooling through the Statistics department, and through the Master’s of Data Science program at UBC.

Previously, I was a data science educator and developer advocate at Posit, PBC. They are the authors of a TON of open source data science tools, some of which are used in this tutorial. They’ll be in the PyCon US 2026 Expo hall (booth 539), so check them out!

How it’s made

If you’re curious about the tools about how this tutorial site was made:

• Quarto Website + Quarto Slides
  • https://quarto.org/
• Shinylive = Shiny + WebAssembly
  • https://shiny.posit.co/py/get-started/shinylive.html
  • Shinylive + quarto:
    • https://github.com/quarto-ext/shinylive
    • https://quarto-ext.github.io/shinylive/
• brand.yml: Specifying colors and branding
  • https://posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/
• Claude Code skills
  • All of the branding setup was done though a Claude Code skill. I just pointed Claude to the PyCon website and Google Sheets template, and asked it to make me a _brand.yml file.
    • https://github.com/posit-dev/skills