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

You in all probability never have to have a fancy Domo chart to inform you that gasoline has gotten rather expensive. But we went in advance and imported weekly ordinary gas costs from the U.S. Strength Information and facts Company anyway. In executing so, we also get to investigate one particular of my favored new options in Domo: Smart Text, which allows you insert dynamic text inside of both of those notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you pick something other than “United States” from the fall-down menu less than “Geo Name” (beneath), it will also adjust the chart upcoming to it (“United States-Ordinary Weekly Fuel Prices”) to whichever region, point out, or city you chose.

In the same way, the time period will change from “Last 30 Years” when I pick out a various date vary, or emphasize a certain segment in the line graph. “The Min Gas Price” and “Max Fuel Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary figures, which permit me to incorporate metrics to my narrative. These are wonderful equipment for making sure that buyers have the correct context even as they self-provide with diverse filters and drills.

You will also see here that we are experimenting with a narrative element (even now in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I truly like this function due to the fact it will help bring new insights out of facts in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a different time interval, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Fairly darn neat, if you question me.

Considering that we introduced “Domo on Knowledge,” we have been quite targeted on U.S. data. Which is considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues around the environment, but it just has to do with the challenge in having metrics from other governments, which have a tendency to be fantastic at offering free of charge data but bad at compiling throughout nations. That said, for this submit, we were being capable to locate some facts on world-wide gasoline selling prices by means of the Worldwide Petrol Rates site. The knowledge is not available for absolutely free, but does give us some terrific context. For occasion, though fuel in the U.S. is far more than $4 for every gallon, it is nearly $11 in Hong Kong and only marginally considerably less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will perform to provide additional world wide knowledge to these webpages in coming posts. Oh, and if you are questioning when the last time gasoline was underneath $1 for every gallon in the U.S., the respond to is March 1999. How I long for all those days!