Spreadsheet disasters
More or Less: behind the statistics
Saturday, 11 February 2023 - 11 minutes
The UK’s Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all because of a spreadsheet slip-up. But that’s just the most recent in a long list of times when spreadsheets have gone wrong, often with costly consequences
Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker takes us through a short history of spreadsheet mistakes.
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