---
title: experimental.mode() function
description: >
  `experimental.mode()` computes the mode or value that occurs most often in the `_value` column
  in each input table.
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  flux_v0_ref:
    name: experimental.mode
    parent: experimental
    identifier: experimental/mode
weight: 101
flux/v0/tags: [transformations, aggregates]
introduced: 0.107.0
---

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`experimental.mode()` computes the mode or value that occurs most often in the `_value` column
in each input table.

`experimental.mode` only considers non-null values.
If there are multiple modes, it returns all modes in a sorted table.
If there is no mode, it returns _null_.

#### Supported types
- string
- float
- int
- uint
- bool
- time

##### Function type signature

```js
(<-tables: stream[{A with _value: B}]) => stream[{A with _value: B}]
```

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## Parameters

### tables

Input data. Default is piped-forward data (`<-`).




## Examples

### Compute the mode of input tables

```js
import "experimental"
import "sampledata"

sampledata.int()
    |> experimental.mode()

```

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#### Input data

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 10      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 7       | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 17      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 15      | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4       | t1   |

| _time                | _value  | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 19      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 4       | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 19      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 13      | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       | t2   |


#### Output data

| *tag | _value  |
| ---- | ------- |
| t1   |         |

| *tag | _value  |
| ---- | ------- |
| t2   | 19      |

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