Hey all! I’m wondering if there’s any way to set a specific order in treemap px. The path function works, but I wanna set an order inside of one category, and category_orders doesn’t exist as an input for treemap. To be more precise: My path includes “Timepoint” and I have three timepoints (1,2,3)…

Hi @jayjay I don’t think treemap has category_orders, so one way to get around this might be to pre-sort your dataframe: df_sorted = df.sort_values(['Timepoint']). Let me know if that works for you.

Hey @adamschroeder , thanks for answering! unfortunately sorting values doesn’t work..

Here’s the code along with the data: import plotly.express as px import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv(“ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janeabdo/analysis/refs/heads/main/testdata.csv ”) df_sorted = df.sort_values([‘Timepoint’]) fig = px.treemap( df_sorted, path=\['Timepoint', 'Visit', 'Instru…

Here looking for the same answer, having already tried sorting the df by day. I am using it to see water consumption by day and its starting with Thursday - the day with the highest consumption/sum of values. Such behavior is limiting the plot for use of things such as datetime - @adamschroeder …

Thanks for the reproducible example! You can use the treemap’s sort attribute to do this. By default it’s set to true so that the sectors are ordered from largest to smallest but you can disable it by setting sort=False. E.g I think this code does what you’re looking to do: import plotly.express as…

it worked, thank you so much!! :slight_smile:

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it worked, thank you so much!!

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Set order in Px Treemap

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