Better way to split column by value into new columns in python?

Question

I have the following dataframe:

data = {\'ID\': [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4], \'User\': [\'type 1\', \'type 2\', \'type 1\', \'type 2\', \'type 1\', \'type 2\', \'typ