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cgio on Oct 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful t...

Great feature but also a very dangerous one. Few cases of people sharing a spreadsheet with an innocuous summary pivot table, not realising they also, in the process, share the full dataset that supports the pivot with sensitive data.

aendruk on Oct 10, 2023 [–]

I once had an instructor do this with a histogram of grades in slides shared with the class.

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