polars.Expr.value_counts#

Expr.value_counts(*, sort: bool = False, parallel: bool = False) Self[source]#

Count the occurrences of unique values.

Parameters:
sort

Sort the output by count in descending order. If set to False (default), the order of the output is random.

parallel

Execute the computation in parallel.

Note

This option should likely not be enabled in a group by context, as the computation is already parallelized per group.

Returns:
Expr

Expression of data type Struct with mapping of unique values to their count.

Examples

>>> df = pl.DataFrame(
...     {"color": ["red", "blue", "red", "green", "blue", "blue"]}
... )
>>> df.select(pl.col("color").value_counts())  
shape: (3, 1)
┌─────────────┐
│ color       │
│ ---         │
│ struct[2]   │
╞═════════════╡
│ {"red",2}   │
│ {"green",1} │
│ {"blue",3}  │
└─────────────┘

Sort the output by count.

>>> df.select(pl.col("color").value_counts(sort=True))
shape: (3, 1)
┌─────────────┐
│ color       │
│ ---         │
│ struct[2]   │
╞═════════════╡
│ {"blue",3}  │
│ {"red",2}   │
│ {"green",1} │
└─────────────┘