I'm more and more convinced there really is a sickness in English culture around relatively petty power - suspect the reality is way too often that it's "I'm the boss now, obey me losers" not "I have responsibility now".
Around the world we rely on #spreadsheets to manage projects & assemble/analyse data... so the news that research suggests 90% of spreadsheets over 150 lines contain one major error.
Not only that, while easy to make, such errors are hard(er) to find.
As so often, what seems like a technical issue of little major consequence, as Simon Thorne (Cardiff MU) explores here actually they can be the root of all sorts of significant problems.
@ChrisMayLA6 Computer Programmer here. I've seen millions written off when spreadsheets are used as proxies for proper accounting practices. I've seen valuable analysts waste half their hours every month cutting-and-pasting data b'twn sheets. I've seen development teams struggle to place complex, fragile, error-prone formulas into Excel in VBA all because the project leads wouldn't tell the users to sit down when they demanded a spreadsheet. Training? Standardisation? Don't make me laugh.
