Liveview Sorting DB Collection and Rendering Problem (very basic)

So I need to either go through the entire collection and convert all the keys to strings or alternatively risk blowing up the app because their is a limited number of available atoms?
I appreciate the reply but something about this doesn’t sound right.

I didn’t explicitly mention that the collection was from Ecto.
It seems like Phoenix would anticipate users matching param strings to keys in Ecto.