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

You almost certainly don’t want a extravagant Domo chart to inform you that fuel has gotten pretty pricey. But we went forward and imported weekly typical fuel rates from the U.S. Vitality Data Agency in any case. In undertaking so, we also get to take a look at just one of my most loved new attributes in Domo: Smart Text, which allows you insert dynamic text within just the two notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you choose something other than “United States” from the fall-down menu under “Geo Name” (below), it will also transform the chart subsequent to it (“United States-Typical Weekly Gas Prices”) to regardless of what location, state, or city you chose.

Similarly, the time interval will adjust from “Last 30 Years” when I find a various date vary, or spotlight a particular area in the line graph. “The Min Fuel Price” and “Max Fuel Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary quantities, which let me to increase metrics to my narrative. These are good tools for making certain that people have the correct context even as they self-provide with diverse filters and drills.

You will also notice in this article that we are experimenting with a narrative attribute (still in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I definitely like this function because it will help convey new insights out of knowledge in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a various time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Pretty darn awesome, if you talk to me.

Because we released “Domo on Knowledge,” we have been rather targeted on U.S. knowledge. That’s considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all around the earth, but it simply has to do with the obstacle in finding metrics from other governments, which tend to be excellent at supplying free of charge details but undesirable at compiling across nations around the world. That reported, for this publish, we ended up capable to obtain some information and facts on world wide fuel costs by way of the Global Petrol Price ranges site. The data is not out there for free of charge, but does give us some wonderful context. For occasion, when gas in the U.S. is far more than $4 for each gallon, it’s nearly $11 in Hong Kong and only somewhat significantly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will get the job done to carry much more international information to these webpages in coming posts. Oh, and if you are thinking when the previous time gas was underneath $1 for each gallon in the U.S., the remedy is March 1999. How I lengthy for individuals days!