Can't sort values before plotting

Question

Here is what I'm trying to do: I currently have the below plot

x=frequencia['Numero']
y=frequencia['Recorrencia']
plt.bar(x,y)

I'm trying to plot the first 10 highest values. For that, I can sort my DataFrame with

frequencia.sort_values(by=['Recorrencia'], inplace=True, ascending=False)

But if I try to print the first 10 values using .head(10), all I get is this second plot.

Is there a way to plot it like below instead?

Derek O · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-08 21:04:49Z

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Try: frequencia = frequencia.sort_values(by=['Recorrencia'])

Then extract the x, y variables to be plotted:

x=frequencia['Numero']
y=frequencia['Recorrencia']
plt.bar(x,y)

answered Apr 8, 2020 at 20:51

Derek O

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Just figured it out. It wasn't plotting properly because the dtype was int. I changed it to str and if ran without issues.