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Journal article
Spreadsheets in the Cloud - Not Ready Yet
Journal of statistical software, v 52(7), pp 1-14
01 Jan 2013
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Abstract
Cloud computing is a relatively new technology that facilitates collaborative creation and modification of documents over the internet in real time. Here we provide an introductory assessment of the available statistical functions in three leading cloud spreadsheets namely Google Spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel Web App, and Zoho Sheet. Our results show that the developers of cloud-based spreadsheets are not performing basic quality control, resulting in statistical computations that are misleading and erroneous. Moreover, the developers do not provide sufficient information regarding the software and the hardware, which can change at any time without notice. Indeed, rerunning the tests after several months we obtained different and sometimes worsened results.
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- Title
- Spreadsheets in the Cloud - Not Ready Yet
- Creators
- Bruce D. McCullough - Drexel UniversityA. Talha Yalta - TOBB Univ Econ & Technol, Dept Econ, TR-06560 Ankara, Turkey
- Publication Details
- Journal of statistical software, v 52(7), pp 1-14
- Publisher
- Journal Statistical Software
- Number of pages
- 14
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000315019400001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84873899963
- Other Identifier
- 991019170327304721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Statistics & Probability