Looking at your website, I think you sorted things out

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike Beccaria <mikebecca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I created my 1st visualization that creates a sortable table of
> values. The problem is that when I sort the "Checkouts" column, they
> sort like letters and not like numbers even though I specified the
> column data type as a number.
>
> Here's the table:
> http://library.paulsmiths.edu/test/charts/top5visualization.html
>
> And the json data that it queries:
> http://library.paulsmiths.edu/test/charts/top5.php
>
> Notice that that Checkouts column is a number but when you sort the
> column, it doesn't sort properly:
> {"cols":[{"id":"year","label":"Year","type":"number"},
> {"id":"title","label":"Title","type":"string"},
> {"id":"checkouts","label":"Checkouts","type":"number"}],
>
> Sorted Copy from chart:
> 2011        Dog hikes in the Adirondacks : 20 trails to enjoy       9
> 2010        Water for elephants : a novel by Sara Gruen.    9
> 2010        The Eighth International Symposium on Environmenta      9
> 2010        Streams : their ecology and life by Colbert.E. Cu       8
> 2010        Introduction to permaculture by Bill Mollison wit       8
> 2010        Negotiation by Roy J. Lewicki, Bruce Barry, David       8
> 2010        Amuse-bouche : little bites that delight before th      8
> 2010        Billy Joe Tatum's Wild foods cookbook and field gu      8
> 2008        About wine by J. Patrick Henderson, Dellie Rex. 36
> 2011        The help by Kathryn Stockett.   18
> 2009        Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.    16
> 2011        Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and m      14
> 2009        Lies my teacher told me : everything your American      14
> 2009        Marked : a house of night novel |c P.C. Cast and        14
> 2008        Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took co      14
> 2010        How the other half lives; studies among the teneme      13
>
>
> Any idea how to fix this? Am I overlooking something?
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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