Pandas Excel: Sort the records by the hire_date column

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16. Sort Records by Hire Date

Write a Pandas program to import given excel data (employee.xlsx ) into a Pandas dataframe and to sort the records by the hire_date column. Go to Excel data

Sample Solution:

Python Code :

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.read_excel('E:\employee.xlsx')
result = df.sort_values('hire_date')
result

Sample Output:

    emp_id   first_name   last_name  hire_date
2      102          Lex     De Haan 2001-01-13
9      109       Daniel      Faviet 2002-08-16
8      108        Nancy   Greenberg 2002-08-17
14     114          Den    Raphaely 2002-12-07
15     115    Alexander        Khoo 2003-05-18
0      100       Steven        King 2003-06-17
5      105        David      Austin 2005-06-25
17     117        Sigal      Tobias 2005-07-24
1      101        Neena     Kochhar 2005-09-21
10     110         John        Chen 2005-09-28
11     111       Ismael     Sciarra 2005-09-30
16     116       Shelli       Baida 2005-12-24
3      103    Alexander      Hunold 2006-01-03
6      106        Valli   Pataballa 2006-02-05
12     112  Jose Manuel       Urman 2006-03-07
18     118          Guy      Himuro 2006-11-15
7      107        Diana     Lorentz 2007-02-07
4      104        Bruce       Ernst 2007-05-21
19     119        Karen  Colmenares 2007-08-10
13     113         Luis        Popp 2007-12-07

Excel Data:

employee.xlsx:

Sheet-1

Sheet-2

Sheet-3

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

Write a Pandas program to import employee.xlsx and sort the DataFrame by the hire_date column in ascending order.
Write a Pandas program to order employee records by hire_date and then display the top ten earliest hires.
Write a Pandas program to sort the employee DataFrame by the hire_date field and verify the order using head().
Write a Pandas program to sort the records from employee.xlsx by hire_date in descending order and then reverse the sorted DataFrame.

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