Microsoft Excel

A Spreadsheet software from Microsoft.

Problems with Excel

Matt Parker has great videos on the issues caused by Excel: When Spreadsheets Attack! and the UK Government loses data because of Excel mistake. He also wrote about it in his book Humble Pi.

There exists an organization called European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group and they collect spreadsheet horror stories!

Spreadsheet problems in Biology - gene names automatically converted to date and other datatypes by Excel.

Examples

Growth in a time of debt

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2ZKCdANyrY/?igsh=ajh6aDFzb3B3ZGJ3 - An explanation of Growth in a Time of Debt problem by Hannah Fry

Issues with the limited size

• UK Government loses data because of Excel mistake
• JPMC noticing irregularities from Javice based on the number of rows

Memes