Question

How do I efficiently obtain the frequency count for each unique value in a NumPy array?

>>> x = np.array([1,1,1,2,2,2,5,25,1,1])
>>> freq_count(x)
[(1, 5), (2, 3), (5, 1), (25, 1)]

Answer 1

Take a look at np.bincount:

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.bincount.html

import numpy as np
x = np.array([1,1,1,2,2,2,5,25,1,1])
y = np.bincount(x)
ii = np.nonzero(y)[0]

And then:

zip(ii,y[ii]) 
# [(1, 5), (2, 3), (5, 1), (25, 1)]

or:

np.vstack((ii,y[ii])).T
# array([[ 1,  5],
         [ 2,  3],
         [ 5,  1],
         [25,  1]])

or however you want to combine the counts and the unique values.