Need to generate random data for Highcharts series - random

Question

I'm trying to generate some random data points for my Highcharts series, but I'm having issues with the data function. Here's my code (simplified from Fiddle):
series : {
name : 'Total Mentions',
type:'spline',
lineWidth:1,
data : (function() {
var arr = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
var date = randomDate(new Date(2004, 0, 9), new Date());
var randNum = Math.round(Math.random()*100);
var finalDate = "Date.UTC(" + date.getFullYear() + ", " + date.getDate() + ", " + date.getMonth() + ")";
arr.push([finalDate, randNum]);
}
return arr;
})()
},
[...etc...],
The format that should be coming out should look like this:
[Date.UTC(2008, 23, 8),56],
[Date.UTC(2012, 12, 6),21],
[Date.UTC(2008, 22, 10),16],
[Date.UTC(2009, 17, 7),25],
[...etc...],
Right now, my page isn't loading the chart. The page will load infinitely, as if it's not recognizing the data.
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You should push date in millisec in array, like this;
arr.push([date.getTime(), randNum]);
arr.sort(function (a,b) { if (a[0] < b[0]) return -1; if (a[0] > b[0]) return 1;
return 0; })
return arr;
I've created a fiddle at; http://jsfiddle.net/hkskoglund/cnTqS/4/
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