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A fascinating study of spreadsheets and how they go wrong

Via Charles Arthur comes this fascinating study into how spreadsheets go wrong. Given how widespread spreadsheets are to the operation of all sorts of organisations and tasks, it’s no trivial matter ensuring that spreadsheets do what is needed.

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Now, I’m off to check some of my Excel documents…

One response to “A fascinating study of spreadsheets and how they go wrong”

  1. Slide 69/77 “this distrubution (sic) centre is now running error-free spreadsheets”
    You might want to run that through a spellcheck though…

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