Pumped up: A look at how the price of gas has risen

You in all probability never need a extravagant Domo chart to tell you that gasoline has gotten very costly. But we went forward and imported weekly average gas selling prices from the U.S. Power Details Company in any case. In accomplishing so, we also get to take a look at one particular of my beloved new attributes in Domo: Good Textual content, which allows you insert dynamic textual content in both of those notebook cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you decide on anything other than “United States” from the fall-down menu below “Geo Name” (below), it will also alter the chart next to it (“United States-Normal Weekly Gasoline Prices”) to no matter what location, condition, or metropolis you selected.

Similarly, the time period of time will improve from “Last 30 Years” when I choose a diverse day selection, or emphasize a particular section in the line graph. “The Min Fuel Price” and “Max Fuel Price” text use Domo dynamic summary quantities, which allow for me to insert metrics to my narrative. These are good tools for ensuring that users have the proper context even as they self-serve with unique filters and drills.

You will also see below that we are experimenting with a narrative attribute (even now in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I really like this function simply because it assists deliver new insights out of information in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a distinctive time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Pretty darn great, if you talk to me.

Considering that we introduced “Domo on Knowledge,” we have been fairly focused on U.S. data. That’s considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all around the globe, but it basically has to do with the obstacle in acquiring metrics from other governments, which have a tendency to be superior at presenting no cost data but lousy at compiling across nations. That claimed, for this write-up, we were in a position to come across some information on world gas charges through the World-wide Petrol Prices site. The data is not accessible for absolutely free, but does give us some great context. For instance, though gas in the U.S. is extra than $4 per gallon, it’s nearly $11 in Hong Kong and only marginally much less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will do the job to convey more world-wide details to these web pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re asking yourself when the final time fuel was beneath $1 for every gallon in the U.S., the remedy is March 1999. How I long for people days!