MediaFaro MagazineThe European Spreadsheet Productivity & Risks Interest Group maintains a list of horror stories with spreadsheet mistakes that made the news.
Some of them have cost millions, reputations, or even lives.
Patrick O'Beirne@padraig A few years ago for a conference competition I created a spreadsheet with seeded errors, to test auditors and auditing software. 'AI' apps have been failing at detecting the errors in it, until now. Claude 4.6 cracked it.
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ExcelAnalyticsEuropean Spreadsheet Risk Annual Conference Programme announced
Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July 2025
University of Greenwich, London, UK
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Spreadsheet Entertainment
AI and LLMs
Excel languages
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Horror Stories
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@Felienne has a paper on "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design"
https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470
Mentions the "math is hard" arguments and that on the other hand "spreadsheets are excluded from the dominant discourses in PL"
It would make for an interesting case study among programmers in the BT Young Scientist competition.
https://btyoungscientist.com/bt-young-scientist-technology-exhibition-continues-break-records-entry-numbers-rise/
"a gender split of 61% female to 39% male entrants"
PeaceNick🇨🇦 🏳️🌈European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group
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The Horror. Make it Stop. 🤓
Ciarán"Some years ago, I was involved in a somewhat heated online disagreement with an eminent professor of spreadsheet risk. I inadvertently provoked my adversary to describe me as an idiot and to compare me to a member of the Italian inquisition. The idiot accusation was probably fair enough, but I didn’t expect the Italian inquisition…"
Can spreadsheets show us how to deal with online misinformation?
We seem to have learned to live with spreadsheets, despite them giving us the wrong answer 90% of the time. Are there any lessons to be learnt from our ability to adapt to fallible spreadsheets that can help us deal with online misinformation?
Leonardo Di Ottio@timbray This horror-stories list by the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (EuSPRIG) is both hilarious and terrifying.
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Exploring Higher #Education #Competencies through Spreadsheet Self-#Assessment and Time. Maria Csernoch, U. Debrecen
Subject integration with spreadsheets: Ignoring education is the greatest risk ever
Mária Csernoch et al.
Prospects for using #Generative #AI to Create #Spreadsheet #Models, Prof. Thomas Grossman, USFCA
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