How to Sort a Data Frame by a Column in Pandas

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This video shows how to sort the rows of a pandas data frame by the values of a column. Sorting or ordering data by the values in a particular column can be a useful way to rearrange data in a logical way and allow you to focus on data records that are at the extremes of a certain variable.

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Code used in this Python Code Clip:

import pandas as pd

import statsmodels.api as sm #(To access mtcars dataset)
mtcars = sm.datasets.get_rdataset("mtcars", "datasets", cache=True).data

mtcars.head()

Sort a data frame by a column with df.sort_values()

mtcars.sort_values(by = ["mpg"], # Row or columns names to sort by
axis = 0, # Sort Rows axis = 0
ascending=True) # Sort ascending or descending?

Sort by multiple columns

mtcars.sort_values(by = ["cyl", "mpg"], # Multiple column sorting
axis = 0, # Sort rows; axis = 0
ascending=[True, False]) # Sort ascending or descending?


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