Read a CSV file into a dictionary of lists, using the column names in the first row as dictionary keys mapping to lists of numeric column data taken from subsequent rows in the CSV file.

csv_to_dict.py

import csv

with open('faithful.dat', newline='') as csvfile:
    reader = csv.reader(csvfile, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC)
    names = next(reader)
    columns = zip(*reader)
    data = {name: column for name, column in zip(names, columns)}