Dr Simon Thorne
@EuSpRIG
Programme chair for The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group, EuSpRIG - (“yewsprig”) for short. Academic and researcher in software and spreadsheet quality
It’s really happening! EuSpRIG welcomes the one and only @standupmaths. We’re ready for risks, research, and possibly the most entertaining spreadsheet jokes ever committed to cell. SUM-mon your curiosity. #EuSpRIG2025 eventbrite.co.uk/e/eusprig-2025…
It’s finally happening! I will be at the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group annual conference! See sum(you all) there.
More on the @DefenceHQ spreadsheet data leak, it has been revealed that the identities of 100 British officials including #MI5 agents and #SAS operatives. It's hard to imagine a more damaging leak #MOD #DataPrivacy #Excel bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Peter Bartholomew on how Lambdas in Excel can replace a whole host of Excel programming with a few flexible and reusable functions written as Lambdas. Very interesting - some are really taking note of this as an alternative to traditional methods




David Lyford Tilly with his second talk at EuSpRIG 2025 on “making the magic bracket happen” - the largest single elimination tournament ever all managed and analysed through spreadsheets #Excel #magicbracket




Dr Maria Czernoch on “The essence of Sprego: A Programming Orientated Method for Teaching and using spreadsheets”




The excellent David Lyford Tilly with his talk “Excel and its many languages: The wizard of ORs” - who knew there were so many ways to write an OR function?


Prof. Tom Grossman, Yuan Chen and Sooiko Datuashvili on their paper “Experiments with GPTs for spreadsheet modelling” #AI




A wonderful talk from John Yeldham “Making up with language and models: bringing together financiers and modellers” #finance #eusprig2025 #excel #spreadsheets


The legendary, spreadsheet royalty, Matt Parker giving his keynote at #EuSpRIG2025




Some really great presentations at #Eusprig2025 so far a lot of AI.




Had some excellent dog company travelling to @UniofGreenwich for #EuSpRIG 2025!

So excited, this time next week the conference will be well underway in Greenwich, you can still get in person or streaming tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/eusprig-2025…
It’s really happening! EuSpRIG welcomes the one and only @standupmaths. We’re ready for risks, research, and possibly the most entertaining spreadsheet jokes ever committed to cell. SUM-mon your curiosity. #EuSpRIG2025 eventbrite.co.uk/e/eusprig-2025…