Pandas rank by multiple columns

Question

I am trying to rank a pandas data frame based on two columns. I can rank it based on one column, but how can to rank it based on two columns? \'SaleCount\', then \'TotalReve

Answer 1

pd.factorize will generate unique values for each unique element of a iterable. We only need to sort in the order we'd like, then factorize. In order to do multiple columns, we convert the sorted result to tuples.

cols = ['SaleCount', 'TotalRevenue']
tups = df[cols].sort_values(cols, ascending=False).apply(tuple, 1)
f, i = pd.factorize(tups)
factorized = pd.Series(f + 1, tups.index)

df.assign(Rank=factorized)

         Date  SaleCount  TotalRevenue shops  Rank
1  2016-12-02        100          9000    S2     1
5  2016-12-02        100          2000    S8     2
3  2016-12-02         35           750    S5     3
2  2016-12-02         30          1000    S1     4
7  2016-12-02         30           600    S7     5
4  2016-12-02         20           500    S4     6
9  2016-12-02         20           500   S10     6
0  2016-12-02         10           300    S3     7
8  2016-12-02          2            50    S9     8
6  2016-12-02          0             0    S6     9