Animated Plots using ggplot and gganimate

Did you know, that you can transform plain old static ggplot graphs to animated ones? Well you can with the help of the package gganimate by RStudio's Thomas Lin Pedersen and David Robinson and the results are amazing! My STATWORX colleagues and I are very impressed how effortless all kind of geoms are transformed to suuuper smooth animations. That's why in this post I will provide a short overview over some of the wonderful functionalities of gganimate, I hope you'll enjoy them as much as we do! Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, we're going to explore the Speed Dating Experiment dataset compiled by Columbia Business School professors Ray Fisman and Sheena Iyengar.