Is ranking by variance done from top to lowest or vice versa?

[JohannesWiesner]

Hi! Thanks so much for this wonderful tool! I just wanted to know what the ordering of ranking is when the user clicks on "Rank by sum" or "Rank by variance" (I couldn't find any info on this). So for example, if I would like to sort my columns by variance, does that mean columns on the left side have low variance and columns on the right side have high variance or vice versa?

[u8sand]

Hi @JohannesWiesner -- sorry for missing this issue.

The "Rank By" buttons compute rank in descending order. So,

• For rows: highest sum/variance is on the top, lowest on the bottom
• For columns: highest sum/variance is on the left, lowest on the right

It would indeed be helpful for people to make this more explicit in the docs and or on the interface.