Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases

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Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases

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Although Excel is popular and commonly used for analysis, it has several limitations that make it unsuitable for large amounts of data and more sophisticated analyses

Paul Clough, a professor in Search & Analytics, University of Sheffield

Public Health England has admitted that 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK were missed from daily figures being reported between September 2