Separating Names & Counting

[Steven5055]

It worked, thanks for the guidance.
Was there another way I could have done this?

import pandas as pd
import os
party = pd.read_csv('party.csv')
data = party['ATTENDEES']
list = data.str.cat(sep=',').strip().split(',')
print(Counter(list).most_common())

Output:
[('John', 2), ('Jan', 2), ('Paul', 2), ('Scott', 2), ('Kylie', 1), ('Jason', 1)]

Also is there anyway of listing the names up/down rather than left/right..
Thanks