Get the element with the highest occurrence in an

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', 'apple', 'orange', 'apple']

the 'apple' element is the most frequent one.

Answer 1

const mode = (str) => {
  return str
    .split(' ')
    .reduce((data, key) => {
      let counter = data.map[key] + 1 || 1
      data.map[key] = counter

      if (counter > data.counter) {
        data.counter = counter
        data.mode = key
      }

      return data
    }, {
      counter: 0,
      mode: null,
      map: {}
    })
    .mode
}

console.log(mode('the t-rex is the greatest of them all'))

Answer 2

This function is generic function for every type of info. It counts the occurrence of the elements and then returns array with maximum occurring elements.

function mode () {
  var arr = [].slice.call(arguments);
  if ((args.length == 1) && (typeof args[0] === "object")) {
    args = args[0].mode();
  }

  var obj = {};
  for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    if(obj[arr[i]] === undefined) obj[arr[i]] = 1;
    else obj[arr[i]]++;
  }

  var max = 0;
  for (w in obj) {
    if (obj[w] > max) max = obj[w];
  }

  ret_val = [];
  for (w in obj) {
    if (obj[w] == max) ret_val.push(w);
  }

  return ret_val;
}

Answer 3

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 4

Here is my solution to this problem but with numbers and using the new 'Set' feature. Its not very performant but i definitely had a lot of fun writing this and it does support multiple maximum values.

const mode = (arr) => [...new Set(arr)]
  .map((value) => [value, arr.filter((v) => v === value).length])
  .sort((a,b) => a[1]-b[1])
  .reverse()
  .filter((value, i, a) => a.indexOf(value) === i)
  .filter((v, i, a) => v[1] === a[0][1])
  .map((v) => v[0])

mode([1,2,3,3]) // [3]
mode([1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3]) // [1,2]

By the way do not use this for production this is just an illustration of how you can solve it with ES6 and Array functions only.

Answer 5

function mode(array){
    var set = Array.from(new Set(array));
    var counts = set.map(a=>array.filter(b=>b==a).length);
    var indices = counts.map((a,b)=>Math.max(...counts)===a?b:0).filter(b=>b!==0);
    var mode = indices.map(a=>set[a]);
    return mode;
}

Answer 6

function mode(){
  var input = $("input").val().split(",");
  var mode = [];
  var m = [];
  var p = [];
    for(var x = 0;x< input.length;x++){
      if(m.indexOf(input[x])==-1){
        m[m.length]=input[x];
    }}
  for(var x = 0; x< m.length;x++){
    p[x]=0;
    for(var y = 0; y<input.length;y++){
      if(input[y]==m[x]){
      p[x]++; 
 }}}
 for(var x = 0;x< p.length;x++){
   if(p[x] ==(Math.max.apply(null, p))){
     mode.push(m[x]);
 }} 
$("#output").text(mode);}