Data Table map interactive sorting

[milroc]

Allow the user to interact with the table (click a column header for example) to determine the sorting by and order. This would add a TON of value to working with the data.

It also might be useful (though possibly muddled at the dc.js layer of abstraction) to allow for different top level locations. By this I mean moving the top 10, to the 10 below a certain quantile value (say the median) or some other statistical measurement. I'm not sure what kind of value this would add to analysis, but definitely something to think about.

[jschoch]

I'd suggest that you support html table format so you could copy/paste into excel

also allowing multiple data tables is not working as far as I can tell

Finally real time update to table length with text field or slider for table length would be quite handy. Not sure how expensive this operation would be.

[jwg2s]

HTML table format would definitely be preferable to the current div style. There is a time and place for HTML tables, and I believe this is one.

I'm using dc with Twitter Bootstrap currently and it would be awesome to be able to generate the nice, formatted tables seen here: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#tables

[NickQiZhu]

Agree. Originally I decided to use block element thinking that they might provide some extra flexibility, but now after a few projects I found the flexibility is never really needed. On top of that I found whenever I need to do something fancy with the blocks, it usually means the requirement is so far off from the tabular view I end of just creating something custom in d3 instead.

[jwg2s]

I need HTML table format for my current project. I could take a stab at modifying what you currently have unless you're already working with something?

[NickQiZhu]

I am not working on it right now. Feel free to take a stab and send me a pull request =)

[NickQiZhu]

switched to html table on v0.9 branch, see [#49] for more details