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HTML
<script src="http://underscorejs.org/underscore.js"></script>
<div id="sum"></div>
JavaScript
var a = [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6],[7,8]]
var col1_sum = _.reduce(a, function(memo,obj){ return memo + parseFloat(obj[0]); }, 0 );
$("#sum").html(col1_sum)