I was able to fix this by hard coding the resources > source. I thought you had to bind the resource to a dataField. I was able to get around it this way:
resources:
{
colorScheme: "scheme02",
source: ['Room 1', 'Room 2', 'Room 3', 'Room 4', 'Room 5', 'Room 6'] //new $.jqx.dataAdapter(source)
},