Biography:Heike Hofmann
Heike Hofmann | |
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| Born | 16 April 1972 Augsburg, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Augsburg (MSc, PhD) |
| Known for | interactive data visualization ggobi |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2014)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical graphics Exploratory Data Analysis Visual inference Visualization of Large Data Statistical computing[2] |
| Institutions | Iowa State University |
| Thesis | Graphical Tools for the Exploration of Multivariate Categorical Data (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Antony Unwin[3] |
| Doctoral students | Hadley Wickham[4] Yihui Xie[3][5] |
| Website | www |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ASA Fellows List". https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Heike Hofmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.
- ↑ "Heike Hofmann". https://www.stat.iastate.edu/people/heike-hofmann.
- ↑ Visiphilia: The love of plotting data (shared blog with Dianne Cook)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Department of Statistics web site". Iowa State University. http://stat.iastate.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ↑ "Can You Buy a President? Politics After the Tillman Act". American Statistical Association. http://chance.amstat.org/2014/02/president/. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
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