Pandas data frame to dictionary of lists

Question

How to use python or pandas (preferably) to convert a pandas data_frame to dictionary of lists for input into highcharts.

The closest I got to was (see tmp notebook

Answer 1

to create a list of the dictionaries per line

post_data_list = []
for i in df2.index:
  data_dict = {}
  for column in df2.columns:
    data_dict[column] = df2[column][i]
  post_data_list.append(data_dict)