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

You possibly do not will need a fancy Domo chart to inform you that gas has gotten rather pricey. But we went ahead and imported weekly ordinary fuel prices from the U.S. Electrical power Information and facts Company anyway. In undertaking so, we also get to investigate 1 of my favorite new options in Domo: Sensible Text, which lets you insert dynamic textual content within both of those notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you select something other than “United States” from the drop-down menu beneath “Geo Name” (down below), it will also improve the chart up coming to it (“United States-Typical Weekly Gas Prices”) to whatever location, state, or metropolis you selected.

Equally, the time time period will transform from “Last 30 Years” when I select a distinct day assortment, or spotlight a particular section in the line graph. “The Min Fuel Price” and “Max Gasoline Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary numbers, which make it possible for me to add metrics to my narrative. These are wonderful instruments for making sure that buyers have the correct context even as they self-provide with different filters and drills.

You will also recognize listed here that we are experimenting with a narrative feature (however in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I definitely like this attribute for the reason that it will help carry new insights out of information in a narrative structure. As you filter for a new geography or a various time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Rather darn cool, if you question me.

Considering that we launched “Domo on Data,” we have been really centered on U.S. facts. Which is a great deal to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all over the globe, but it only has to do with the problem in getting metrics from other governments, which are likely to be superior at supplying free information but poor at compiling across international locations. That said, for this article, we ended up able to locate some data on world-wide fuel selling prices by means of the Global Petrol Rates internet site. The information is not obtainable for absolutely free, but does give us some fantastic context. For occasion, even though gas in the U.S. is extra than $4 for every gallon, it’s almost $11 in Hong Kong and only a little bit significantly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will operate to carry far more international info to these pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re pondering when the previous time fuel was less than $1 for each gallon in the U.S., the response is March 1999. How I lengthy for all those times!