Question:
In the example vega-lite, they use mean/average for sorting the x-axis. Why does the graph show a difference when setting count?
sorting x-axis with mean/average
sorting x-axis with count or any other measure
Also is this necessary? Since we are filtering on the rank of the y-values.
import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data
movies = data.movies()
# Top 10 cars by miles per gallon
alt.Chart(
movies,
).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('Title:N', sort=alt.EncodingSortField(field="IMDB_Rating", op="mean", order='descending')),
y=alt.Y('IMDB_Rating'),
color=alt.Color('IMDB_Rating')
).transform_window(
rank='rank(IMDB_Rating)',
sort=[alt.SortField('IMDB_Rating', order='descending')]
).transform_filter(
(alt.datum.rank < 10)
)
import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data
movies = data.movies()
# Top 10 cars by miles per gallon
alt.Chart(
movies,
).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('Title:N', sort=alt.EncodingSortField(field="IMDB_Rating", op="count", order='descending')),
y=alt.Y('IMDB_Rating'),
color=alt.Color('IMDB_Rating')
).transform_window(
rank='rank(IMDB_Rating)',
sort=[alt.SortField('IMDB_Rating', order='descending')]
).transform_filter(
(alt.datum.rank < 10)
)
Example of Top K Items of a Bar chart.
Related issue: https://github.com/altair-viz/altair/issues/1306
Taken from the vega-lite examples: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/window.html#top-k
Question: In the example vega-lite, they use mean/average for sorting the x-axis. Why does the graph show a difference when setting count?