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 # posterdown
 
+<img src="posterdown_hexlogo1.png" alt="poster logo" align="right" width = "25%" height="25%"/>
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 As a graduate student, I found that it is almost a rite of passage to take early research and analysis and generate a conference poster allowing for critical feedback as well as meeting the people in your field. I have also noticed that many of my fellow graduate students use R and are also getting their feet wet with RMarkdown :blush:; however, we always had to go back to using MS Powerpoint or Keynote for generating conference posters :unamused:. Posterdown was created as a proof of concept (to myself) that it is possible to make a beautiful poster using open source reproducible code.
 
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