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Clearly written by someone without any real world experience. Daily checks and plots, and daily phone calls and meetings..... But how we start by explaining th
by aaron695 6y ago
Clearly written by someone without any real world experience. Daily checks and plots, and daily phone calls and meetings.....
But how we start by explaining this. Does the author expect us to believe they were using Excel 2003?
"I’m not going to complain about Public Health England (PHE) using excel to merge the test results from each test centre"
What actually happened, then perhaps we move onto solutions.
(The solution most likely being some sort of Hamming code/check sum, the number of cases is also included with the data for instance)
- proce55ing 6y agoThey did indeed use Excel to process the data. They could have possibly used a more recent version of Excel but saved the data in the legacy file format anyway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988
- martingoodson 6y agoHamming codes? This comment is clearly written by someone with no real world experience of working in public sector IT. What I've outlined in the article is a basic solution that can be implemented by anyone.
- aaron695 6y agoSorry. I didn't see it you who posted your article. That was a cunt comment. I dont agree with you but I should have worded that differently.