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Spreadsheet data quality

The practical problems of reading machine-generated business spreadsheets, including inconsistent headers, multiple header blocks, total rows embedded in data and broken formula references.

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Zomato's grand total row adds a section its own label leaves out

A developer parsed 24 real delivery payout files and found the charges that move money sitting past the summary tab, under a deductions total labelled (A)+(B)+(C) that sums four sections. His own parser doubled the discount figure on its first pass.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption30
Hype gap+8
Incentives25
Confidence55