jquery.js:1496 Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression

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When I load

$ cat applications.csv 
Name,Gender,Home institution,Career Stage
A,Male,X (Y-Z),Phase 2
B,Female,U1,Phase 2
C,Male,U2,Phase 3
D,Male,U3,Phase 3

and try to run entrofy I got

jquery.js:1496 Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: .target#Home institution_X (Y-Z)
    at Function.ga.error (jquery.js:1496)
    at ga.tokenize (jquery.js:2113)
    at ga.select (jquery.js:2517)
    at Function.ga [as find] (jquery.js:893)
    at m.fn.init.find (jquery.js:2733)
    at new m.fn.init (jquery.js:2850)
    at m (jquery.js:73)
    at p:255
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at get_targets (p:253)

as a Javascript error. The error is only visible at the web browser developer console which made me think if the software was working (I will create another issue for this).

I changed applications.csv to be

Name,Gender,Home institution,Career Stage
A,Male,X Y-Z,Phase 2
B,Female,U1,Phase 2
C,Male,U2,Phase 3
D,Male,U3,Phase 3

and I got a different error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1997, in __call__
    return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1985, in wsgi_app
    response = self.handle_exception(e)
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1540, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 33, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1982, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1614, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1517, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 33, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/home/raniere/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/home/raniere/SSI/src/entrofy/app/server.py", line 53, in sample
    pre_selects)
  File "/home/raniere/SSI/src/entrofy/app/entrofy.py", line 202, in process_table
    score, rows = entrofy(X, k, q=np.asarray([float(_) for _ in q]),
  File "/home/raniere/SSI/src/entrofy/app/entrofy.py", line 202, in <listcomp>
    score, rows = entrofy(X, k, q=np.asarray([float(_) for _ in q]),
TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'

Hypothesis

Special characters in the values of some column is creating Javascript issues. So far, I had problems with (, ) and /.