indeed, have been looking with my eyes closed it seems
in your code try and define with single ' rather than using "
{'cols':[{'id':.......'type':'number'}],

not sure but the websites explaining about the topic all use single

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Mike Beccaria <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not with my browser. I checked it this morning (just now) and noted
> that the numbers don't sort in order. Here's a screenshot:
> http://screencast.com/t/O5Otv4fv
>
> Notice the checkouts are supposed to be sorted from high to low but
> they go from 9,8,...36,18,16.
>
> Mike
>
> On Feb 9, 7:05 am, Fons Seesink <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Looking at your website, I think you sorted things out
>>
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>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike Beccaria <[email protected]> 
>> 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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