how to display largest and smallest in python

Question

How can I display both the smallest and largest on a single plot.

My current code is this:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

smallest = lsoas.sort_values('imd_score').head(10)

largest = lsoas.sort_values('imd_score').head(10)

f, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(6, 6))
lsoas.plot(facecolor='black', linewidth=0.025, ax=ax)
smallest.plot(alpha=1, facecolor='red', linewidth=0, ax=ax)
largest.plot(alpha=1, facecolor='blue', linewidth=0, ax=ax)
ax.set_axis_off()
f.suptitle('Areas with smallest population')
plt.axis('equal')
plt.show()

but this only shows the largest .

Answer 1

While your code isn't exactly reproducible ( lsoas is not defined), it appears you're setting both smallest and largest to head(10) , so they're defined as the same thing. Use tail(10) for the smallest value.