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Re:No one cared about my spreadsheets by fddhjjj on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:53PM (#30368633)
There are dozens of examples in the wild of python code getting reviewed, corrected, and enhanced. I’m not a spreadsheet expert. Does that even happen for spreadsheets?
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Re:No one cared about my spreadsheets by cool_dude85 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:49PM (#30368988)
The most high-profile story is some grad students at UMass getting ahold of the spreadsheets powering the calculations in a high-profile economics paper by Reinhart and Rogoff about national debt levels, and finding elementary errors that destroyed the work.
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