Ronald N GuymonRonald N. Guymon is a Senior Lecturer in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his BS and Master of Accountancy from Brigham Young University and his PhD in accounting from the University of Iowa.In addition to his current role at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he has shared his expertise with students at Georgia State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Iowa. He has also helped dozens of clients find insights with their own data while working outside of academia as a Chief Data Scientist at Numetric and as the Chief Data Officer at Gigg. Dr. Guymon has published in Journal of Management Accounting Research and Accounting Horizons. He has been helping to shape business analytics curriculums since 2012. Notably, he has created and cocreated several courses related to business analytics, including various massive open online courses (MOOCS) that include Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization, Accounting Data Analytics with Python, Introduction to Business Analytics with R, Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis in Business, and Machine Learning Algorithms with R in Business Analytics. He has been a Gies Teaching and Learning Faculty Innovation Scholar and is a recipient of the Dean'sImpact Award. In addition to teaching business analytics, Dr. Guymon frequently uses analytic tools to develop analytic solutions in various aspects of his life from improving the efficiency of grading to maintaining the cars that his family uses. Read More Read Less