Benford's Analyzer

Need a quick and easy way to indicate if your numbers are genuine?

How can your data work for you if it is not?
Benford's Analyzer offers a quick and easy way to check your data for authenticity, all based in statistics - Benford's Law

Yours for the price of an idea.

Just let us know what Google add-on you would like to have that would make your life or work easier, and you'll get a license.
See below for details.

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Use Benford's Analyzer from within your Google Sheet. Analyze 'All Sheets', 'Whole Sheet' or a 'Selected Range'.

The results screen shows the variance between your numbers and Benford's Law.

How does it work?

Distribution of numbers in real-world data follows a strong trend, Benford's Law.
1 is by far the most common as a non-zero leading number.
The other numbers decrease in frequency as they go up.
On the other hand, human-generated numbers tend to be distributed more evenly.
Benford's Analyzer checks the distribution of numbers in your data against Benford's Law.
A high variance could indicate authenticity issues in your data!

Benford's Law is consistent across many different types of data, in fact, just how consistent it is might suprise you.

See it demonstrated in an interesting way here:

TESTING BENFORD'S LAW

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The Benford's Law number distribution.

Easily compare your number distribution to Benford's Law with Benford's Analyzer.

So why choose Benford's Analyzer?

A simple add-on that allows quick and easy data analysis.
Choose between analyzing all sheets, a whole sheet, or a selected range.
Process up to 10 million cells at one time.
Do everything from within Google Sheets.
It's yours for just a little feedback!

How to get a license

Suggest an idea for a Sheets add-on that would make your life or work easier and you'll receive a license.
If we develop your idea, we will also give you and your team a license for the new product for free.

Click here to apply:
Benford's Analyzer License

About our company

The Clever Little Software Company may be small, but we showcase some big talent.

Tom McCann has been a developer working on many high-profile systems over a long and varied IT career, as well as developing his own products. He has worked with several major programming languages, paradigms, and software packages.

Michael McCann is a front-end developer who has worked on websites and Google Add-ons. He has worked with several different programming languages, in many countries around the world.