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# pandas.Series.value_counts

`Series.``value_counts`(normalize=False, sort=True, ascending=False, bins=None)

  Returns Series containing counts of unique values. The resulting Series will be in descending order so that the first element is the most frequently-occurring element. Excludes NA values

  Parameters : | normalize : boolean, default False If True then the Series returned will contain the relative frequencies of the unique values. sort : boolean, default True Sort by values ascending : boolean, default False Sort in ascending order bins : integer, optional Rather than count values, group them into half-open bins, a convenience for pd.cut, only works with numeric data
  Returns : | counts : Series

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