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Making Your Reports Shine: PDF Edition

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Quarto document:

---
title: "Portland Public Schools Math Proficiency Report"
format: 
  typst:
    papersize: us-letter
    margin:
      top: 1in
execute: 
  echo: false
  warning: false
  message: false
---

```{r}
library(tidyverse)
library(here)
library(flextable)
library(gt)
library(scales)
library(marquee)
library(ggrepel)
```

# Introduction

![Portland Public Schools](portland-public-schools-logo.svg){width=300px fig-align="center" fig-alt="Portland Public Schools logo"}

This is a report on math proficiency results in [Portland Public Schools (PPS)](https://www.pps.net/). The PPS mission statement is as follows:

> We provide rigorous, high-quality academic learning experiences that are inclusive and joyful. We disrupt racial inequities to create vibrant environments for every student to demonstrate excellence.^[https://www.pps.net/about/portland-public-schools-information/overview]

Hello hello hello!

# Plot

```{r}
third_grade_math_proficiency <-
  read_rds(here("data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds")) |>
  select(
    academic_year,
    school,
    school_id,
    district,
    proficiency_level,
    number_of_students
  ) |>
  mutate(
    is_proficient = case_when(
      proficiency_level >= 3 ~ TRUE,
      .default = FALSE
    )
  ) |>
  group_by(academic_year, school, district, school_id, is_proficient) |>
  summarize(number_of_students = sum(number_of_students, na.rm = TRUE)) |>
  ungroup() |>
  group_by(academic_year, school, district, school_id) |>
  mutate(
    percent_proficient = number_of_students /
      sum(number_of_students, na.rm = TRUE)
  ) |>
  ungroup() |>
  filter(is_proficient == TRUE) |>
  select(academic_year, school, district, percent_proficient) |>
  rename(year = academic_year)

```

```{r}
theme_dk <- function() {
  theme_minimal(base_family = "Geist") +
    theme(
      axis.title = element_blank(),
      legend.position = "none",
      panel.grid = element_blank(),
      plot.title = element_marquee(width = 1),
      plot.title.position = "plot"
    )
}
```


```{r}
#| fig-alt: Chart showing growth in math proficiency for PPS schools from 2018-2019 to 2021-2022
#| fig-cap: Chart showing growth in math proficiency for PPS schools from 2018-2019 to 2021-2022

top_growth_school <-
  third_grade_math_proficiency |>
  filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
  group_by(school) |>
  mutate(
    growth_from_previous_year = percent_proficient - lag(percent_proficient)
  ) |>
  ungroup() |>
  slice_max(
    order_by = growth_from_previous_year,
    n = 1
  ) |>
  pull(school)


plot_title <-
  marquee_glue(
    "{.orange **{top_growth_school}**} showed large growth 
        in math proficiency over the last two years"
  )

third_grade_math_proficiency |>
  filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
  mutate(
    highlight_school = case_when(
      school == top_growth_school ~ "Y",
      .default = "N"
    )
  ) |>
  mutate(
    school = fct_relevel(
      school,
      top_growth_school,
      after = Inf
    )
  ) |>
  mutate(
    percent_proficient_formatted = percent(percent_proficient, accuracy = 1)
  ) |>
  mutate(
    percent_proficient_formatted = case_when(
      highlight_school == "Y" & year == "2021-2022" ~
        str_glue(
          "{percent_proficient_formatted} of students
          were proficient
          in {year}"
        ),
      highlight_school == "Y" & year == "2018-2019" ~
        percent_proficient_formatted
    )
  ) |>
  ggplot(
    aes(
      x = year,
      y = percent_proficient,
      color = highlight_school,
      group = school,
      label = percent_proficient_formatted
    )
  ) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_text_repel(
    hjust = 0,
    lineheight = 0.9,
    direction = "x",
    family = "Geist"
  ) +
  scale_color_manual(
    values = c(
      "Y" = "orange",
      "N" = "gray80"
    )
  ) +
  scale_x_discrete(
    expand = expansion(add = c(0, 0.5))
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    labels = percent_format(),
    limits = c(0, 1)
    # expand = expansion(add = c(0.1, 0.2))
  ) +
  annotate(
    geom = "text",
    x = 2.02,
    y = 0.6,
    hjust = 0,
    lineheight = 0.9,
    color = "gray70",
    label = str_glue(
      "Each gray line
    represents one
    school"
    )
  ) +
  labs(
    title = plot_title
  ) +
  theme_dk()
```

```{r}
third_grade_math_proficiency_wide <-
  read_rds(here("data/third_grade_math_proficiency_dichotomous.rds")) |>
  filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
  filter(
    school %in%
      c(
        "Abernethy Elementary School",
        "Ainsworth Elementary School",
        "Alameda Elementary School",
        "Arleta Elementary School",
        "Atkinson Elementary School"
      )
  ) |>
  select(year, school, percent_proficient) |>
  arrange(school) |>
  pivot_wider(
    id_cols = school,
    names_from = year,
    values_from = percent_proficient
  )
```

{{< pagebreak >}}

# Table

The following table shows math proficiency in 2018-2019 and 2021-2022 for all PPS schools. If you want to see `r top_growth_school`, you can use the search bar to find it.

```{r}
third_grade_math_proficiency_wide_full <-
  read_rds(here("data/third_grade_math_proficiency_dichotomous.rds")) |>
  filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
  select(year, school, percent_proficient) |>
  arrange(school) |>
  pivot_wider(
    id_cols = school,
    names_from = year,
    values_from = percent_proficient
  )
```

```{r}
third_grade_math_proficiency_wide_full |>
  gt() |>
  cols_label(school = "School") |>
  fmt_percent(
    columns = 2:3,
    decimals = 0
  )
```

brand.yml file:

meta:
  name: brand.yml
  link: https://posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml

color:
  palette:
    black: "#1A1A1A"
    white: "#FFFFFF"
    orange: "#FF6F20"
    pink: "#FF3D7F"
  foreground: black
  background: white
  primary: orange
  danger: pink

typography:
  fonts:
    - family: Open Sans
      source: google
    - family: Rubik
      source: google
    - family: IBM Plex Mono
      source: google

  base: Open Sans
  headings:
    family: IBM Plex Mono
    weight: 400
    color: orange
  monospace: IBM Plex Mono

Your Turn

Create a PDF document using the typst format. Refer to the typst documentation on the Quarto website to see all of the things you can do.

And check out the brand.yml website if you want to customize your document further.

I did an interview with Garrick Aden-Buie about brand.yml if you prefer video.

Learn More

For the basics of how Quarto works with Typst, check out the docs.

If you really want to go deep on making custom Typst templates, check out my blog post How to Make High-Quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst.

For a more general talk on the benefits of designing reports in R, check out the talk I gave at posit::conf 2024 about typst.

To learn about brand.yml, check out my interview with Garrick Aden-Buie of Posit, who developed it. Albert Rapp also has a good intro to it.

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