[3] Hofmann's research interests are in statistical graphics, exploratory data analysis, visual inference, visualization of large data and statistical computing[2][9][10] She is currently[when?]
Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University,[11] and faculty member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Human Computer Interaction programs.
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.
She has supervised or co-supervised 8 doctoral theses,[3] including Hadley Wickham[4] and Yihui Xie.