Excel - Mega Millions Most Popular Numbers and Strategy - Episode 1911

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Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Analyzing Mega Millions Numbers: Find the Most Popular Lottery Numbers in Excel | MrExcel Podcast.

Welcome back to the MrExcel podcast, hosted by the one and only Bill Jelen! In this episode, we delve into the intriguing world of the Mega Millions lottery, aiming to find the most popular numbers that might just change your life forever.

📈 Key Points:
📅 Downloading Mega Millions winning numbers.
📊 Preparing the data for analysis, including inserting necessary headings.
🔄 Utilizing the "unwind process" to restructure the data.
🔄 Excel versions pre-2010 using Alt D P for multiple consolidation ranges.
📆 Adding extra columns for year, new game status, and formatting the data.
🔄 Creating a pivot table for insightful analysis.
🔍 Identifying the most popular numbers over the entire game history and post-game changes.
📅 Filtering data for specific years to analyze number popularity trends.

💡 Insights and Strategies:
🤔 Analyzing the most popular numbers since the game changed in October 2013.
🔢 Understanding the impact of a smaller pool of numbers on the frequency of higher numbers.
📈 Sorting and filtering data to explore trends for specific years.

🔮 Future Considerations:
📅 Adjusting strategies based on changing trends in number popularity.
🔄 Adapting analysis techniques for extended datasets.

🚀 Excel Tips and Tricks:
🔄 For Excel 2013 or newer users: Skip adding the date field to the pivot table for convenience.
💾 Saving the pivot table data as XLSB for future use.

🙏 Special Thanks:
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How to download past drawing results of the Mega Millions game and find the most common numbers in the last year, quarter, or month. This long video is a followup to episode 453, where I glossed over how to put the results in a long column. Update: +MrBubeTube pointed out that the Iowa lottery website offers the results in a nice tab-delimited form that imports better to Excel: http://www.ialottery.com/Results/MM.txt

Table of Contents
(00:00) Most popular numbers in Mega Millions Lottery
(01:05) Download CSV of all winning numbers
(02:12) Cleaning the data
(03:15) Unwind the data
(03:50) Pivot with Multiple Consolidation Ranges
(04:26) Power Query would be easier
(05:30) Add Year column
(06:02) Old or New Game
(07:22) Adding a Pivot Table
(08:43) Sort by descending popularity
(09:17) Limit to only new game
(09:48) The most popular lottery numbers
(10:47) Most popular by Year
(11:52) Timeline Slicer
(13:18) Which numbers are overdue?
(14:36) Using Slicers
(16:11) Save as Excel instead of CSV

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