pandas plot value counts barplot in descending manner [duplicate]

Question

I have a dataframe where i am trying to count the occurrence of each value. I plot it as horizontal bar but cant get it to be sorted.

df = pd.DataFrame(['A','A','A','B','B','C'],columns = ['letters'])

df.value_counts()

A 3
B 2
C 1

How can i get it sorted in a descending manner?

Answer 1

You can do it by changing your plotting line like this

df.letters.value_counts().sort_values().plot(kind = 'barh')

Answer 2

This might count as a bit of a hack, but try this:

df.letters.value_counts().sort_index(ascending=False).plot(kind='barh')