Challenge: Find the Most Frequent Values in a Column
Learn how to find the most frequent values in columns of a DataFrame.
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Problem statement
We often need to find the most frequent values in a column. There are multiple ways to perform this operation with Pandas.
In the following exercise, we’ll find the three most frequent values in a column by using the functions and methods that we’ve learned so far. The find_most_frequents
function below is designed to find the three most frequent values (in order) of the given column in the sales
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Solution
Write your solution in the specified place and click on “test”.
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Make sure to uncomment the lines before execution.
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If we give
last_week_sales
as input to thefind_most_frequents
function, the output should be a list that contains the most frequent three values in this column, which is[13, 12, 14]
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