Heike Hofmann
Born (1972-04-16) 16 April 1972 (age 51)
Augsburg, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Augsburg (MSc, PhD)
Known forinteractive data visualization
ggobi
AwardsFellow of the American Statistical Association (2014)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical graphics
Exploratory Data Analysis
Visual inference
Visualization of Large Data
Statistical computing[2]
InstitutionsIowa State University
ThesisGraphical Tools for the Exploration of Multivariate Categorical Data (2000)
Doctoral advisorAntony Unwin[3]
Doctoral studentsHadley Wickham[4]
Yihui Xie[3][5]
Websitewww.stat.iastate.edu/people/heike-hofmann

Heike Hofmann (born 16 April 1972) is a statistician and Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University.[2][6][7]

Education

She earned an MSc in Mathematics, with a minor in Computer Science, and a PhD in Statistics, from the University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany in 1998 and 2000, respectively.[3]

Career and research

Hofmann's research interests are in statistical graphics, exploratory data analysis, visual inference, visualization of large data and statistical computing[2][8][9] She is currently[when?] Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University,[10] and faculty member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Human Computer Interaction programs.

In her research on interactive data visualization she has provided new approaches for plotting multivariate categorical data using mosaic plots, and making interactions with these plots, and linking between plots. She was the primary development of the software MANET and contributed to the development of the software GGobi. More recent software include the R packages x3prplus, geomnet, nullabor, gglogo, peptider, discreteRV, ggboxplots, ggparallel, dbData, HLMdiag, lvboxplots, MergeGUI, MissingDataGUI. Her work on examining the inflow of corporate cash into the 2012 US presidential election can be read in Chance magazine.[11]

Heike Hofmann is the author of more than 50 journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and edited one book. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has supervised or co-supervised 8 doctoral theses,[3] including Hadley Wickham[4] and Yihui Xie.[5]

Honors and awards

She was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2014.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "ASA Fellows List". Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Heike Hofmann publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c d Heike Hofmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ a b Wickham, Hadley Alexander (2008). Practical tools for exploring data and models. iastate.edu (PhD thesis). Iowa State University. doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-16852. OCLC 247410260. ProQuest 194000416.
  5. ^ a b Xie, Yihui (2013). Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics. iastate.edu (PhD thesis). Iowa State University. doi:10.31274/etd-180810-3256. OCLC 880379367. ProQuest 1500559149.
  6. ^ "Heike Hofmann".
  7. ^ Visiphilia: The love of plotting data (shared blog with Dianne Cook)
  8. ^ Hofmann, Heike; Siebes, Arno P. J. M.; Wilhelm, Adalbert F. X. (2000). "Visualizing association rules with interactive mosaic plots". Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining - KDD '00. pp. 227–235. doi:10.1145/347090.347133. ISBN 1581132336. S2CID 1158773.
  9. ^ Buja, Andreas; Swayne, Deborah F; Littman, Michael L; Dean, Nathaniel; Hofmann, Heike; Chen, Lisha (2008). "Data Visualization With Multidimensional Scaling". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 17 (2): 444–472. doi:10.1198/106186008X318440. ISSN 1061-8600. S2CID 10675294.
  10. ^ "Department of Statistics web site". Iowa State University. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  11. ^ "Can You Buy a President? Politics After the Tillman Act". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
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