Spreadsheet disasters
What happens when spreadsheets go wrong?
The UK鈥檚 Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all because of a spreadsheet slip-up. But that鈥檚 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.
Presenter:Tim Harford
Producer: Nathan Gower
Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: John Scott
(Financial analyst using spreadsheet software. Credit: Andrey Popov/Getty Images)
Last on
Broadcasts
- Sat 11 Feb 2023 05:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service except Australasia
- Sat 11 Feb 2023 22:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Sun 12 Feb 2023 00:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service Online, UK DAB/Freeview, News Internet & Europe and the Middle East only
- Sun 12 Feb 2023 14:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service Australasia & News Internet only
- Sun 12 Feb 2023 22:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Mon 13 Feb 2023 00:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service Australasia, South Asia & East Asia only
- Mon 13 Feb 2023 10:50GMT蘑菇短视频 World Service
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
蘑菇短视频 Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.
Podcast
-
![]()
More or Less
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
