# Part 6 of Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures is now live... Check it out [here](https://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/datastructures_guide6.asp) > **[Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets](https://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/datastructures_guide6.asp)** > Scott Mitchell > **Summary:** Scott Mitchell discusses data structures for implementing general and disjoint sets. A set is an unordered collection of unique items that can be enumerated and compared to other sets in a variety of ways.