pandas.DataFrame.idxmin — pandas 2.2.3 documentation (original) (raw)

DataFrame.idxmin(axis=0, skipna=True, numeric_only=False)[source]#

Return index of first occurrence of minimum over requested axis.

NA/null values are excluded.

Parameters:

axis{0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’}, default 0

The axis to use. 0 or ‘index’ for row-wise, 1 or ‘columns’ for column-wise.

skipnabool, default True

Exclude NA/null values. If an entire row/column is NA, the result will be NA.

numeric_onlybool, default False

Include only float, int or boolean data.

Added in version 1.5.0.

Returns:

Series

Indexes of minima along the specified axis.

Raises:

ValueError

• If the row/column is empty

Notes

This method is the DataFrame version of ndarray.argmin.

Examples

Consider a dataset containing food consumption in Argentina.

df = pd.DataFrame({'consumption': [10.51, 103.11, 55.48], ... 'co2_emissions': [37.2, 19.66, 1712]}, ... index=['Pork', 'Wheat Products', 'Beef'])

df consumption co2_emissions Pork 10.51 37.20 Wheat Products 103.11 19.66 Beef 55.48 1712.00

By default, it returns the index for the minimum value in each column.

df.idxmin() consumption Pork co2_emissions Wheat Products dtype: object

To return the index for the minimum value in each row, use axis="columns".

df.idxmin(axis="columns") Pork consumption Wheat Products co2_emissions Beef consumption dtype: object