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

You almost certainly don’t want a fancy Domo chart to notify you that gasoline has gotten fairly expensive. But we went forward and imported weekly regular fuel costs from the U.S. Power Info Agency in any case. In undertaking so, we also get to examine just one of my beloved new characteristics in Domo: Intelligent Textual content, which lets you insert dynamic textual content in just both of those notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you pick out some thing other than “United States” from the fall-down menu underneath “Geo Name” (underneath), it will also improve the chart next to it (“United States-Normal Weekly Fuel Prices”) to whatever location, point out, or town you chose.

In the same way, the time period will improve from “Last 30 Years” when I choose a different date assortment, or highlight a individual section in the line graph. “The Min Gas Price” and “Max Fuel Price” text use Domo dynamic summary figures, which enable me to insert metrics to my narrative. These are terrific instruments for making certain that consumers have the right context even as they self-provide with diverse filters and drills.

You will also see listed here that we are experimenting with a narrative attribute (nevertheless in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I actually like this attribute for the reason that it helps bring new insights out of data in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a unique time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Quite darn awesome, if you check with me.

Considering the fact that we released “Domo on Information,” we have been pretty concentrated on U.S. data. Which is a lot to the chagrin of some of my colleagues around the environment, but it simply has to do with the problem in having metrics from other governments, which have a tendency to be very good at supplying no cost data but negative at compiling across international locations. That reported, for this post, we have been able to find some facts on worldwide gasoline prices by way of the World wide Petrol Rates site. The data is not readily available for totally free, but does give us some excellent context. For occasion, while gasoline in the U.S. is a lot more than $4 for each gallon, it is just about $11 in Hong Kong and only a bit significantly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will do the job to carry additional world details to these pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you are asking yourself when the very last time gas was below $1 for each gallon in the U.S., the solution is March 1999. How I extended for all those times!