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

You likely never need to have a extravagant Domo chart to convey to you that fuel has gotten very pricey. But we went forward and imported weekly normal fuel price ranges from the U.S. Strength Data Company anyway. In accomplishing so, we also get to discover one particular of my favourite new characteristics in Domo: Smart Text, which allows you insert dynamic textual content within both equally notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you decide on something other than “United States” from the fall-down menu beneath “Geo Name” (beneath), it will also improve the chart upcoming to it (“United States-Average Weekly Gas Prices”) to regardless of what area, state, or metropolis you selected.

Likewise, the time period of time will transform from “Last 30 Years” when I choose a distinct date array, or highlight a unique part in the line graph. “The Min Gas Price” and “Max Fuel Price” text use Domo dynamic summary figures, which allow me to insert metrics to my narrative. These are good resources for guaranteeing that consumers have the proper context even as they self-serve with diverse filters and drills.

You will also notice right here that we are experimenting with a narrative feature (however in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I actually like this attribute mainly because it will help carry new insights out of info in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a distinctive time time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Fairly darn awesome, if you ask me.

Considering that we released “Domo on Information,” we have been rather concentrated on U.S. information. Which is considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues around the entire world, but it simply just has to do with the obstacle in finding metrics from other governments, which are inclined to be superior at giving totally free information but bad at compiling throughout international locations. That stated, for this article, we had been capable to uncover some information and facts on world wide fuel rates via the World wide Petrol Charges web page. The data is not available for absolutely free, but does give us some fantastic context. For occasion, even though fuel in the U.S. is more than $4 for every gallon, it is virtually $11 in Hong Kong and only a little considerably less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will perform to bring extra world-wide information to these webpages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re pondering when the previous time fuel was beneath $1 per gallon in the U.S., the response is March 1999. How I lengthy for those times!