Answers for "make a dictionary from dataframe"

pandas dataframe from dict

data = {'col_1': [3, 2, 1, 0], 'col_2': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']}
pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)

convert dict to dataframe

#Lazy way to convert json dict to df

pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data, orient='index').T

dataframe to dictionary

>>> df.to_dict('records')
[{'col1': 1, 'col2': 0.5}, {'col1': 2, 'col2': 0.75}]

create a dataframe from dict

create a dataframe from dict (function)

import pandas as pd
def create_df():
    data = {'col_1': [3, 2, 1, 0], 'col_2': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']}
    return pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)
create_df()