polars.Series.value_counts#

Series.value_counts(*, sort: bool = False, parallel: bool = False) → DataFrame[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:

DataFrame: Mapping of unique values to their count.

Examples

>>> s = pl.Series("color", ["red", "blue", "red", "green", "blue", "blue"])
>>> s.value_counts()  
shape: (3, 2)
┌───────┬───────┐
│ color ┆ count │
│ ---   ┆ ---   │
│ str   ┆ u32   │
╞═══════╪═══════╡
│ red   ┆ 2     │
│ green ┆ 1     │
│ blue  ┆ 3     │
└───────┴───────┘

Sort the output by count.

>>> s.value_counts(sort=True)
shape: (3, 2)
┌───────┬───────┐
│ color ┆ count │
│ ---   ┆ ---   │
│ str   ┆ u32   │
╞═══════╪═══════╡
│ blue  ┆ 3     │
│ red   ┆ 2     │
│ green ┆ 1     │
└───────┴───────┘