GitHub user Peilin-Yang opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1371
[ZEPPELIN-1372] ### What is this PR for? Automatically detect the data type for the contents in the table. This enables the sorting on numerical columns. Please see #1372 for details. ### What type of PR is it? [Bug Fix | Improvement] ### Todos * [ ] - Task ### What is the Jira issue? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1372 ### How should this be tested? Click on the title of columns and see whether the numeric contents are correctly sorted. ### Screenshots (if appropriate) Before  After  ### Questions: * Does the licenses files need update? No * Is there breaking changes for older versions? No * Does this needs documentation? No You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/Peilin-Yang/zeppelin ZEPPELIN-1372 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1371.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1371 ---- commit 0108732486d8fa4a95c58dcc2bd105ab4af96678 Author: Peilin Yang <peil...@twitter.com> Date: 2016-08-26T20:27:49Z automatic detect the type of the input in table for sorting purpose commit 87c16108142425202728c3948cd619c0f2475cae Author: Peilin Yang <peil...@twitter.com> Date: 2016-08-26T20:27:49Z automatic detect the type of the input in table for sorting purpose commit 30fe6d81a4ad903cf006ca9862b0169cc677f94d Author: Peilin Yang <peil...@twitter.com> Date: 2016-08-26T20:29:16Z Merge branch 'ZEPPELIN-1372' of https://github.com/Peilin-Yang/zeppelin into ZEPPELIN-1372 ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---