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Spreadsheet disasters

Spreadsheet disasters

The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes

More or Less · BBC Radio 4

February 11, 202310m 13s

Show Notes

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.