Attempting to find the 5 largest values per month using groupby

Question

I am attempting to show the top three values of nc_type for each month. I tried using n_largest but that doesn\'t do it by date.

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Answer 1

I'd include group_keys=False

df.groupby('occurred_date', group_keys=False).nlargest(3)

occurred_date  nc_type
1.0            f          34
               w          24
               z          13
12.0           w          44
               g          42
               a          27
Name: value, dtype: int64