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

You most likely really don’t need a extravagant Domo chart to tell you that fuel has gotten rather expensive. But we went forward and imported weekly average fuel prices from the U.S. Electricity Information Agency anyway. In carrying out so, we also get to take a look at 1 of my preferred new functions in Domo: Clever Text, which lets you insert dynamic textual content within just both equally notebook cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you decide on a thing other than “United States” from the fall-down menu beneath “Geo Name” (underneath), it will also change the chart future to it (“United States-Common Weekly Gas Prices”) to what ever region, state, or metropolis you chose.

Likewise, the time period will transform from “Last 30 Years” when I find a different day range, or emphasize a specific section in the line graph. “The Min Gasoline Price” and “Max Gas Price” text use Domo dynamic summary quantities, which let me to include metrics to my narrative. These are good applications for ensuring that end users have the right context even as they self-serve with unique filters and drills.

You will also detect here that we are experimenting with a narrative attribute (continue to in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I really like this aspect mainly because it helps convey new insights out of data in a narrative structure. As you filter for a new geography or a different time interval, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Really darn amazing, if you request me.

Given that we launched “Domo on Info,” we have been very targeted on U.S. data. Which is a lot to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all over the earth, but it just has to do with the obstacle in having metrics from other governments, which are inclined to be great at offering absolutely free information but poor at compiling across international locations. That mentioned, for this put up, we were being able to discover some info on international gas price ranges by way of the Global Petrol Rates site. The data is not readily available for no cost, but does give us some terrific context. For instance, whilst gasoline in the U.S. is more than $4 per gallon, it’s practically $11 in Hong Kong and only a bit a lot less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will do the job to convey a lot more world-wide info to these web pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you are wondering when the past time gas was below $1 per gallon in the U.S., the reply is March 1999. How I long for individuals times!