Finding most common elements

Another powerful usage of Counter is finding the most common elements in a list. This can be done with the .most_common() method.

Practice using this now to find the most common species in a penguins list.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Types in Python

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Exercise instructions

Import the Counter object from collections.
Create a Counter of the penguins list called penguins_species_counts; use a list comprehension to return the Species of each penguin to the Counter.
Print the three most common species counts.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import the Counter object
____

# Create a Counter of the penguins list: penguins_species_counts
penguins_species_counts = ____

# Find the 3 most common species counts
print(____)

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