Issue 2021-W09 Highlights

Random effects, GGanimate intro, and updates to dplyr backends

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
• Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing
• GGanimating a geographic introduction
• dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0

Supplemental Resources

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/55364/mixed-model-in-simple-english
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-linear-mixed-model-works-350950a82911
https://twitter.com/tjmahr/status/1365424619344318466