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Sorting and Grouping

4.9 - Sorting and Grouping

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What function is used to sort a DataFrame in Pandas?

💡 Hint: Think about how you would list items in order.

Question 2 Easy

How can you sort data in descending order?

💡 Hint: What change do you need to make for the order?

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Question 1

What function would you use to sort values in a DataFrame?

df.sort()
df.sort_values()
df.order()

💡 Hint: It has 'values' in the function name.

Question 2

True or False: Grouping data can only be done with numerical columns.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about what kind of data can be grouped together.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a dataset of employee performance ratings across different departments, demonstrate how to group data by department and retrieve the average score.

💡 Hint: Think about which column represents the categories.

Challenge 2 Hard

Create a DataFrame of sales data for various products and sort it first by sales amount and then by product type.

💡 Hint: Recall how to combine multiple sorting criteria.

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