How to format a document in markdown: Documenting a data analysis approach in markdown (CC017)

In this screencast tutorial, Pat Schloss shows how you can use a simple language called markdown to provide some light formatting to a text files. Today we'll use markdown to improve the appearance and organization of our README files, but in the future we'll use them to document various experiments that we try in our project. In addition, we'll meet atom, a platform-independent text editor that will help us to write in markdown and see what the text will look like in GitHub. Markdown and atom will be critical as we determine the degree to which inter- and intra-genomic variation limit the interpretation of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs; aka exact sequence variants or ESVs).

Pat demonstrates these concepts by live coding at the command line interface using RStudio, GitHub Flow, and make. He then turns viewers loose to work through several activities to answer related questions and finishes by giving his solutions.