Beamer use Tikz to Highlight Certain Parts of Tables

EDIT: I CHANGED THE SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE BLOG AND THE CODE BLOCK BELOW GOT MESSED UP. ALL SLASHES ARE GONE. BEWARE I did my proposal yesterday and it went well 😀

I used beamer to prepare my slide deck and was very pleased with how easy it was to work with. R already has functionality to export tables to Latex format and they looked gorgeous in beamer.

I wanted to highlight certain parts of the results table and discuss the results as they relate to hypothesis. I achieved this through tikzmarkin and tikspicture. Below is an example and above is how it looks.

\documentclass{beamer}

% for themes, etc.
mode<presentation>
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
\usecolortheme{beaver}

\usepackage{times} % fonts are up to you
\usepackage{graphicx}
% The usual suspects
\usepackage{multirow, booktabs, dcolumn, color} % Tables
% The table highlighting for hypothesis discussion.
\usepackage[beamer,customcolors]{hf-tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}

% To set the hypothesis highlighting boxes red.
\tikzset{hl/.style={
set fill color=red!80!black!40,
set border color=red!80!black,
},
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Preliminary Results}

\resizebox{.99linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{l D{)}{)}{14)3}@{} D{)}{)}{13)3}@{} D{)}{)}{13)3}@{} }
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 1} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 2} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 3}
\toprule
\midrule

~Control & 0.392 ; (0.021)^{} & 0.198 ; (0.022)^{} & 0.198 ; (0.022)^{} \tikzmarkin<3>[hl]{bH2}DevOwn & 0.064 ; (0.003)^{} & &
~Frat & & 0.051 ; (0.001)^{} & ~Serot & & & 0.051 ; (0.001)^{} \tikzmarkend{bH2}
\tikzmarkin<2>[hl]{bH1}Frat x Serot & -22.018 ; (1.474)^{} & -8.747 ; (1.535)^{} & -8.750 ; (1.535)^{***} \tikzmarkend{bH1}
\midrule
AIC & 171986.112 & 140758.027 & 140762.308
Num. events & 11821 & 11821 & 11821
Num. obs. & 601960 & 601960 & 601960

\bottomrule
\multicolumn{4}{l}{scriptsize{$^{}p<0.001$, $^{}p<0.01$, $^p<0.05$}}
\end{tabular}

}

\only<2>{
% Place the hypothesis number next to the highlighted area
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[align=left, left] at ({pic cs:bH2}) {small{H2}};
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

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