pandas top 10 values code example

Example 1: nlargest

>>> df.nlargest(3, 'population')
        population      GDP alpha-2
France    65000000  2583560      FR
Italy     59000000  1937894      IT
Malta       434000    12011      MT

Example 2: pandas top 10 values of a column

df.sort_values(['item', 'value'], ascending=False).groupby('item').head(10)