title: how to deal with large data sets with jquery isotope
body: <p>I am planning on using the great isotope plugin for displaying a list of contacts and then allowing them to be filtered. The issue I have is that it works great for a small data set but i'm not sure the best way of scaling it up for 1000+ pieces of data.</p>
  
  <p>So far the ideas I had were:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>loading a random subset and then adding nodes to it as filters are clicked to fill in the gaps</li>
  <li>loading more nodes as a user scrolls</li>
  <li>paging the results</li>
  <li>not displaying contacts until enough filters have been selected to bring the numbers below a predefined threshold.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm not sure if these will work well and I was hoping others had faced this situation and could give me some ideas.</p>