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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by jussij on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:47AM (#24695555)
This quote from the article says this work was being done be a developer(s) and if that is the case they should have know better.

The problem is that PHE's own developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.

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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by Closi on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:41AM (#24696108)
It's unlikely this was done by a developer in reality, and it's more likely to be a data analyst that was called a developer in the press release.
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