ArrayCollection column counts

As part of an example of trying to read data from SharePoint and display it in a Flex/Flash application, I needed to see if I could create pie charts from the data.  After figuring out how to get the list data as an xml output, then cleaning up the data to insert it into a ArrayCollection, the next step was to count the number of times a particular value was used in a particular column.  If I was using SQL, it would be  a straight forward grouping and count.  The work around was to filter out the unique values and Continue reading ArrayCollection column counts