from collections import Counter

data = ['apple', 'banana', 'apple', 'orange', 'banana', 'apple']
frequency = Counter(data)

print(f"Original data: {data}")
print(f"Item frequencies: {frequency}")
# Access individual counts
print(f"Count of 'apple': {frequency['apple']}")
print(f"Most common 2 items: {frequency.most_common(2)}")

# Example with string characters
text = "hello world"
char_counts = Counter(text)
print(f"Character counts for '{text}': {char_counts}")