In a project, you need to efficiently find the top 5 most frequent elements in a large dataset. Which data structure and algorithm combination would you use?
- Binary Search Tree (BST)
- Hash Map with Heap
- QuickSort Algorithm
- Trie Data Structure
Using a Hash Map to track element frequencies and a Heap to efficiently find the top elements is a common approach. This combination allows constant-time lookup and log-linear time complexity for maintaining and extracting the most frequent elements.
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