Plot horizontal bar order by DESC value of column

Question

I have this dataframe

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I try to show graph by this code

sns.barplot(data=africa_all_percent,y="country", x="suicide_percent_for_all_pop",palette='plasma',orient="h")

it's give me this results

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I try to order by desc with this code

orderX = africa_all_percent['suicide_percent_for_all_pop'].sort_values(ascending=False)

sns.barplot(data=africa_all_percent,y="country", x="suicide_percent_for_all_pop",palette='plasma',orient="h",order = orderX)

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look like it's not work, I tried some solutions but it's still not work.

solution or code guiding for order by desc in this graph.

You need the index of `orderX` here: `sns.barplot(...., order = orderX.index)` — JohanC, Mar 15 '23 at 06:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '23 at 08:30

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Simply sort your dataframe before plotting:

africa_all_percent = africa_all_percent.sort_values('suicide_percent_for_all_pop', ascending=False)

Output:

answered Mar 15 '23 at 08:30

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Plot horizontal bar order by DESC value of column

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