Random effects, GGanimate intro, and updates to dplyr backends Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing (https://www.tjmahr.com/random-effects-penalized-splines-same-thing/) GGanimating a geographic introduction (https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2021-02-15-gganimating-a-geographic-introduction/) dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0 (https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2021/02/dplyr-backends/) 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