Pandas data frame to dictionary of lists
In [199]: df2.reset_index().to_dict(orient=”list”) Out[199]: {‘date’: [‘2014-10-1’, ‘2014-10-2’, ‘2014-10-3’, ‘2014-10-4’, ‘2014-10-5’], ‘foo’: [8, 1, 8, 8, 1], ‘temp’: [10, 10, 8, 3, 10], ‘time’: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}