The previous two recipes work similarly by sorting values in slightly different manners. Finding the top n values of a column of data is equivalent to sorting the entire column descending and taking the first n values. Pandas has many operations that are capable of doing this in a variety of ways.
Replicating nlargest with sort_values
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will replicate the Selecting the smallest from the largest recipe with the sort_values method and explore the differences between the two.
How to do it...
- Let's recreate the result from the final step...
