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    Product Combinations bought by Customers

    I have a Table that depicts all customers and the products they have purchased. There are about 250 Products and about 500 Customers for total of about 2800 Product Client combination. I am attempting to figure out the various types of combinations of products that are frequently purchased.

    Additionally, I have some standard combinations of products that I have grouped together and would like to see what accounts have that grouping of products.

    How would I accomplish this ?

    Any assistance is appreciated.
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    Thank You for the guidance. I have enclosed a sample file and I would like to interrogate the data to see :
    a) What are the frequently purchased combinations of products in order of reducing frequency : Who are the clients buying each combination ?
    b) How many and which clients are buying Combo 1 or Como 2 or Combo 3 etc. in the master list ?
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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    Hi, welcome to the forum

    Actually, there are potentially 1250000 Prod/Client combos

    To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    Thank You Ford for the recommendation. I have updated the thread appropriately.

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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    Im thinking that you will need to 1st ID all prod/client combos for this, and I can think of 2 ways to start this off

    1. Create a table with a vertical list of customers and headings for Prods, then use COUNTIFS.
    I started mt table in I1 (empty), with Prod starting in I2 and names in J1
    J2=COUNTIFS($B:$B,$I2,$A:$A,J$1)
    copied down and across as needed

    OR
    use a Pivot Table with Client as Column and Product for rows and Values

    Once you have this summary, you can start doing your extracts

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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    The problem you describe sounds to me like "market basket analysis" -- a common analysis. It's not an analysis I do, but I am aware of it. A quick internet search for "market basket analysis excel" turned up:
    A tool if not built into Excel, available to Excel users from Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql...ql-server-2014
    This blog post: http://www.data-mania.com/blog/marke...ysis-in-excel/
    This one, whose author included PhD behind his/her name: https://people.revoledu.com/kardi/tu.../MarketBasket/
    And several others. Market basket analysis is a fairly common analysis in many programming languages, and Excel/spreadsheets are no different. You might see if any of these tools/essays are useful for you.
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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    Hi Stanstar,

    please find attached file, may be could help your requirements ;refer column I & J


    Thanks,

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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    Thanks JDN,

    What do Columns I and J provide ? I am uncertain I can interpret the formula. Please help.

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    Re: Product Combinations bought by Customers

    Thanks MrShorty,

    I will review and see if it assists some.

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