countplot does not have option for the ordering of the x values

The count plot function does not have any way to order the values. The default ordering of x is incorrect.

I used the following code:

ax = sns.countplot(x=("PhdDecade", "first"),
                 data=df_faculty, color="grey")
for p in ax.patches:
    height = p.get_height()
    ax.text(p.get_x()+0.25, height+ 3, 'n=%.0f'%(height))

Seaborn version: 0.7.0

[adicostil]

try this, should be desc by counts

ax = sns.countplot(x=("PhdDecade", "first"),
                 data=df_faculty, color="grey", order=df_faculty['PhdDecade'].value_counts().index)

if you need asc

order=reversed(df_faculty['PhdDecade'].value_counts().index)

[JRSami]

Also, might try:

df_faculty[‘PhdDecade’] = pd.Categorical(df_faculty[‘PhdDecade’], categories = [‘1950’s’,‘1960’s’,‘1970’s’,‘1980’s’,‘1990’s’,‘2000’s’,‘2010’s’], ordered = True)