Count frequency of values in pandas DataFrame column

Question

I want to count number of times each values is appearing in dataframe.

Here is my dataframe - df:

    status
1     N
2     N
3     C
4           


        

Answer 1

You can use value_counts and to_dict:

print df['status'].value_counts()
N    14
S     4
C     2
Name: status, dtype: int64

counts = df['status'].value_counts().to_dict()
print counts
{'S': 4, 'C': 2, 'N': 14}