Unfortunately not everyone knows about literate programming so many tables in Word documents are “generated” by hand (generated is really too strong a word) and what very often happens is that these handcrafted tables have typos. Usually it’s totals that are wrong. Checking the totals in these tables by hand with a pocket calculator is a tedious, long and boring job.

So as my job’s statistician but also kinda automation dude that types all day in a weird black …