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

You possibly don’t have to have a extravagant Domo chart to explain to you that fuel has gotten really highly-priced. But we went forward and imported weekly common gas charges from the U.S. Electricity Data Agency in any case. In undertaking so, we also get to discover 1 of my favourite new functions in Domo: Good Textual content, which lets you insert dynamic textual content inside both notebook cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you select something other than “United States” from the fall-down menu under “Geo Name” (underneath), it will also adjust the chart upcoming to it (“United States-Regular Weekly Fuel Prices”) to whatsoever location, condition, or city you chose.

Similarly, the time period of time will alter from “Last 30 Years” when I pick out a distinctive date selection, or highlight a distinct section in the line graph. “The Min Gasoline Price” and “Max Gas Price” text use Domo dynamic summary numbers, which allow me to increase metrics to my narrative. These are wonderful tools for making certain that users have the suitable context even as they self-provide with distinct filters and drills.

You will also notice right here that we are experimenting with a narrative characteristic (nonetheless in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I actually like this function because it helps bring new insights out of information in a narrative structure. As you filter for a new geography or a distinctive time period of time, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Quite darn neat, if you ask me.

Given that we launched “Domo on Knowledge,” we have been quite centered on U.S. information. That is much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues about the environment, but it merely has to do with the challenge in finding metrics from other governments, which tend to be good at featuring free facts but lousy at compiling throughout countries. That claimed, for this put up, we were ready to obtain some details on global gasoline costs via the Worldwide Petrol Prices web-site. The details is not accessible for no cost, but does give us some good context. For occasion, whilst gasoline in the U.S. is much more than $4 for every gallon, it’s pretty much $11 in Hong Kong and only slightly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will do the job to convey additional worldwide info to these internet pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re questioning when the previous time fuel was less than $1 per gallon in the U.S., the reply is March 1999. How I long for individuals days!