pyarrow.compute.mode

pyarrow.compute.mode(array)

Return the mode (most common value) of a passed numerical (chunked) array. If there is more than one such value, only the smallest is returned.

Parameters

array (pyarrow.Array or pyarrow.ChunkedArray) –

Returns

mode (pyarrow.StructScalar)

Examples

>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> import pyarrow.compute as pc
>>> arr = pa.array([1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2])
>>> pc.mode(arr)
<pyarrow.StructScalar: {'mode': 2, 'count': 5}>