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Spreadsheet disasters
What happens when spreadsheets go wrong?
The UK鈥檚 Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all because of a spreadsheet slip-up. But that鈥檚 just the most recent in a long list of times when spreadsheets have gone wrong, often with costly consequences
Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker takes us through a short history of spreadsheet mistakes.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?