[OC] Visualizing 365 Days of California Lottery Variance: Identifying “Dead Zones” via Positional Digit Decay

[OC] Forensic Analysis of CA Daily 3 Variance Data Source: Scraped from the California Lottery Public API (JSON) via Python. Tools Used: ETL/Data Cleaning: Python (Pandas/Requests) Mathematical Analysis: First-order Markov Chain Transition Modeling Visualization: Python (Matplotlib/Seaborn) with a 'mako' color mapping. The visualization maps the "decay" of each digit (0-9) across the three draw positions [...]