Slide layout templates

six canonical layouts for the course decks - copy the markup, keep the rules

L1 · Full-bleed figure — wide figures (AR ≥ 1.8), no body text

L1 · one image, nothing else; Quarto auto-stretches it to the remaining height

L2 · Statement + figure — wide/landscape figure, ONE line of text

Visual thinking is a series of acts of attention, eye movements, and pattern finding.

L2 · exactly one bold line above; everything else goes to speaker notes

L3 · Text beside figure — square/tall figure with bullets (40 / 60)

  • We complete incomplete shapes
  • Implication: a visualization can mislead by accident
  • Conversely: a sparse set of marks is enough to carry a trend

L3 · height=“760” caps the figure whatever its shape; columns disable auto-stretch

L4 · Centred figure — square figure, no text worth a column

L4 · .nostretch is required, otherwise width= is overridden at runtime

L5 · Comparison — two figures, one caption

Same counties, same data — sequential hides the threshold, diverging shows it.

L5 · 50/50; stacked variant: two .nostretch images at width 100% then ~62%, centred

L6 · Text only — up to six bullets, or two columns of ≤ 4 in .smaller

  • Null values
  • Empty strings
  • Placeholder values (999, −1)
  • Incomplete records
  • Different formats
  • Duplicate records
  • Conflicting values
  • Unit mismatches

L6 · one column for ≤ 6 bullets; split at 7+ so nothing shrinks below .smaller