For data-attribute typecasting of Numbers and String, use −
[...document.querySelectorAll("a")].forEach(a => console.log("type: %s, value: %o", typeof a.dataset.value, a.dataset.value) );
The above is for the following data-attributes −
<a data-value = "6.0">6.0</a> <a data-value = "6.5">6.5</a>