Excel errors: the UK government has an embarrassingly long history of spreadsheet horror stories
Excel errors: the UK government has an embarrassingly long history of spreadsheet horror stories: TeodorLazarev/Shutterstock When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, first said the country would develop a £12 billion “world-beating” system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19, few people probably imagined that it would be based around a £120 generic spreadsheet program. …