cleaned up and streamlined a bit

[whatcoloris]

cleaned it - still sure there's a more graceful method....

[edwardsharp]

so, this seems to work much better:

var initAutocomplete = function(){
  var dataObj = {};
  var hrefObj = {};

  for(var proj of data){
    if(proj.title != ''){
      var _key = proj.title;
      if(proj.contributor && proj.contributor !== ''){
        _key = _key + ' -- ' + proj.contributor;
      }
      if(proj.place && proj.place !== ''){
        _key = _key + ' -- ' + proj.place;
      }
      dataObj[_key.trim()] = null;
      hrefObj[_key.trim()] = proj.url;
    }
  }

  M.Autocomplete.init(document.querySelectorAll('input.autocomplete'), {
    data: dataObj,
    limit: 50,
    onAutocomplete: function(val) {
      var projKey = Object.keys(hrefObj).filter(function(i){return i === val})[0]
      if(projKey && hrefObj[projKey]){
        window.location = hrefObj[projKey];
      }
    },
    minLength: 1
  });
}

[edwardsharp]

@whatcoloris i just pushed a fix to master