woodwork.datatable.DataTable.value_counts

DataTable.value_counts(ascending=False, top_n=10, dropna=False)

Returns a list of dictionaries with counts for the most frequent values in each column (only

for DataColumns with category as a standard tag).

Parameters

• ascending (bool) – Defines whether each list of values should be sorted most frequent to least frequent value (False), or least frequent to most frequent value (True). Defaults to False.

• top_n (int) – the number of top values to retrieve. Defaults to 10.

• dropna (bool) – determines whether to remove NaN values when finding frequency. Defaults to False.

Returns

a list of dictionaries for each categorical column with keys count

and value.

Return type

top_list (list(dict))

woodwork.datatable.DataTable.update_dataframe woodwork.datacolumn.DataColumn