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Improve look and feel for the HTML

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#46 opened on May 25, 2018

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The HTML template I made during the unconf is real basic and not all that attractive. I consider making it look better a must-do.

  • @maelle had a great idea of using Blogdown or Hugo to generate a more complex site around the JSON-LD

  • I think it was @cboettig that thought we could automatically put some exploratory data viz type plots or [skimr](https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr) output on the page. This would be awesome! See also the cool work in codebook which does a really nice job of this already. Here's what skimr can do:

    ## Variable type: numeric 
    ##      variable missing complete   n mean   sd  p0 p25  p50 p75 p100     hist
    ##  Petal.Length       0      150 150 3.76 1.77 1   1.6 4.35 5.1  6.9 ▇▁▁▂▅▅▃▁
    ##   Petal.Width       0      150 150 1.2  0.76 0.1 0.3 1.3  1.8  2.5 ▇▁▁▅▃▃▂▂
    
  • At the very least, make the pages look as good as pkgdown's output. @cboettig mentioned showing a two-column display so the geo coverage and data access are at the top and less of the content is below the fold. I ❤️ ily agree.

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