After years of wishing something like this existed, I decided to finally buckle down and make it myself. Behold, an animated explanation of what group_by() |> summarize() does in {dplyr} in #rstats!
More coming later with group_by(cat2), plus group_by(cat1, cat2) and ungroup()!
@andrew These are great! One thing students find confusing in my experience is that group_by() doesn't actually arrange anything. So I think something like this might be good too? So the rows don't move around in the group_by() step.
@grrrck I forked tidyexplain and was going to try doing this with gganimate, but it was too hard since there are so many different steps and it's not just toggling between two dataframes
@andrew you had me at flying colored boxes! What did you end up using to make the animation?
I’ve looked at the issue many times trying to convince myself it would be easy. No pressure but if you want to add it to the collection I’m sure it would be appreciated and used!
@grrrck I'm doing it all by hand in Illustrator and After Effects
I'll add a PR with YouTube and/or Vimeo links + animated gifs + raw mp4s + whatever format you need once I finish the group_by(cat1, cat2) %>% summarize() %>% ungroup() animation
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