Script to find most common features found from multiple runs of an algorithm with different parameters.

top-features.py

"""Script to find most common features found from
multiple runs of an algorithm with different parameters.
"""
from collections import Counter

runs = [
    ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"],
    ["a", "b", "c", "d", "f"],
    ["a", "b", "c", "e", "g"],
    ["a", "b", "d", "f", "h"]
]

# approach 1
c = Counter()
for features in runs:
    c.update(features)
print(c.most_common(5))

# approach 2
all_features = [f for features in runs for f in features]
print(all_features)
c = Counter(all_features)
print(c.most_common(5))

# print just the top features without the counts
top_features = [f for f, count in c.most_common(5)]
print(top_features)