Top K Items

This example shows how to use the window and transformation filter to display the Top items of a long list of items in decreasing order. Here we sort the top 10 highest ranking movies of IMDB.

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source = data.movies.url

# Top 10 movies by IMBD rating
alt.Chart(
    source,
).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('Title:N', sort='-y'),
    y=alt.Y('IMDB_Rating:Q'),
    color=alt.Color('IMDB_Rating:Q')

).transform_window(
    rank='rank(IMDB_Rating)',
    sort=[alt.SortField('IMDB_Rating', order='descending')]
).transform_filter(
    (alt.datum.rank < 10)
)