Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...

If the natural data can't support the sorting and filtering requirements, you might need to add an index column and sort by it.

Portland startup Lucky Sort has been acquired by Twitter and will be shutting down its service in the coming months as company employees move to Twitter's revenue engineering department.