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Dr Simon Thorne
@EuSpRIG
Programme chair for The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group, EuSpRIG - (“yewsprig”) for short. Academic and researcher in software and spreadsheet quality
Jun 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
An #Excel #error in the Austrian social democrats leadership election occurred when aggregating results together into a spreadsheet. #Doskozil was leader from the 3rd to the 5th of June. Following the correction #Babler leads the party. #risk #Excelgate

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Image We have countless examples of spreadsheet errors in political organisation. The mistakes made are elementary and often occur when passing information from system A to system B manually. A basic lack of checking, corroboration and validation has derailed democracy once again
Sep 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Big update on EuSpRIG!!!

The pandemic years have obviously meant that we have been unable to meet as we usually would. In this time we have published some content from authors but in 2023 we are returning to our physical conference. We will be publishing our call for papers soon What have we been up to in these years? Well we have all had our thinking caps on to improve our academic and industrial standing. We have just completed a submission to Engineering Village for inclusion of our proceedings in all Elsevier academic databases