Creating a dictionary of lists from pandas data frame

Question

I\'m trying to create a dictionary of lists based on a pandas dataframe, I need a dictionary of lists to pass for my Plotly dashboard

In:
df.head()
Model             


        

Answer 1

You can groupby, aggregate to lists, return a rec.array with to_records and construct a dictionary from the result:

dict(df.groupby('Model').agg(list).to_records())
# {'Ford': ['F-150', 'Escape', 'Mustang'], 'Jeep': ['Grand Cherokee', 'Wrangler']}