Lesson: Dictionaries and Frequency Tables

Building upon what was taught in the Conditional Statements mission, you will continue to build and refine your Python programming skills by learning about dictionaries and how to take advantage of them to build frequency tables to check how many times a certain event occurs in a dataset.

In this mission, you'll learn concepts such as what dictionaries are and how they're a useful data structure in Python, terminology related to dictionaries such as keys and values, how to update dictionary values using dictionary keys, and more. You'll also combine your knowledge of for loops to loop over dictionaries to create a frequency table for key-value pairs within the dictionary.

Upon completion of this mission, you'll be more confident in your programming ability when using Python for data science. If you feel like you need practice, think of something you can create using what you've learned so far; it doesn't have to be big, it can be something small, like a calculator. Or if you feel like you need more practice with dictionaries in Python — or just want to learn more concepts as it relates to dictionaries — check out this tutorial that goes through the basics of Python dictionaries