Get the element with the highest occurrence in an array

Question

I\'m looking for an elegant way of determining which element has the highest occurrence (mode) in a JavaScript array.

For example, in

[\'pear\', \'a         


        

Answer 1

As I'm using this function as a quiz for the interviewers, I post my solution:

const highest = arr => (arr || []).reduce( ( acc, el ) => {
  acc.k[el] = acc.k[el] ? acc.k[el] + 1 : 1
  acc.max = acc.max ? acc.max < acc.k[el] ? el : acc.max : el
  return acc  
}, { k:{} }).max

const test = [0,1,2,3,4,2,3,1,0,3,2,2,2,3,3,2]
console.log(highest(test))

Answer 2

// O(n)
var arr = [1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6];
var duplicates = {};
max = '';
maxi = 0;
arr.forEach((el) => {
    duplicates[el] = duplicates[el] + 1 || 1;
  if (maxi < duplicates[el]) {
    max = el;
    maxi = duplicates[el];
  }
});
console.log(max);

Answer 3

var array = [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 12, 12, 17],
    c = {}, // counters
    s = []; // sortable array

for (var i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
    c[array[i]] = c[array[i]] || 0; // initialize
    c[array[i]]++;
} // count occurrences

for (var key in c) {
    s.push([key, c[key]])
} // build sortable array from counters

s.sort(function(a, b) {return b[1]-a[1];});

var firstMode = s[0][0];
console.log(firstMode);

Answer 4

var cats = ['Tom','Fluffy','Tom','Bella','Chloe','Tom','Chloe'];
var counts = {};
var compare = 0;
var mostFrequent;
(function(array){
   for(var i = 0, len = array.length; i < len; i++){
       var word = array[i];

       if(counts[word] === undefined){
           counts[word] = 1;
       }else{
           counts[word] = counts[word] + 1;
       }
       if(counts[word] > compare){
             compare = counts[word];
             mostFrequent = cats[i];
       }
    }
  return mostFrequent;
})(cats);

Answer 5

function mode(arr){
  return arr.reduce(function(counts,key){
    var curCount = (counts[key+''] || 0) + 1;
    counts[key+''] = curCount;
    if (curCount > counts.max) { counts.max = curCount; counts.mode = key; }
    return counts;
  }, {max:0, mode: null}).mode
}

Answer 6

Here’s the modern version using built-in maps (so it works on more than things that can be converted to unique strings):

'use strict';

const histogram = iterable => {
    const result = new Map();

    for (const x of iterable) {
        result.set(x, (result.get(x) || 0) + 1);
    }

    return result;
};

const mostCommon = iterable => {
    let maxCount = 0;
    let maxKey;

    for (const [key, count] of histogram(iterable)) {
        if (count > maxCount) {
            maxCount = count;
            maxKey = key;
        }
    }

    return maxKey;
};

console.log(mostCommon(['pear', 'apple', 'orange', 'apple']));