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The Importance of Excel
- stblack 14y agoThis article has interesting takes on Excel's role in recent financial collapses due to poor debugging support and systemic biases that lead to particular types of errors.
- tapertaper 14y agoAlternate title: the importance of peer review. Spreadsheets are awesome because they let us organize analysis visually which more programming-based quantitative tools cannot. This makes everything easier, including auditing. But someone's still got to do it.