Return the n largest/smallest values for column in DataFrame

Get n-largest values from a particular column in Pandas DataFrame

df.nlargest(5, 'Gross')

Return the first n rows with the smallest values for column in DataFrame

df.nsmallest(5, ['Age'])

To order by the smallest values in column “Age” and then “Salary”, we can specify multiple columns like in the next example.

df.nsmallest(5, ['Age', 'Salary'])

There is also an optional keep parameter for the nlargest and nsmallest functions. keep has three possible values: {'first', 'last', 'all'}. The default is 'first'

Where there are duplicate values:

• first : take the first occurrence.
• last : take the last occurrence.
• all : do not drop any duplicates, even it means selecting more than n items.

df.nlargest(5, 'Gross', keep='last')