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

You in all probability never want a extravagant Domo chart to convey to you that gasoline has gotten rather highly-priced. But we went ahead and imported weekly typical gasoline selling prices from the U.S. Power Details Company anyway. In doing so, we also get to examine 1 of my preferred new features in Domo: Good Textual content, which lets you insert dynamic text in just both equally notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you select one thing other than “United States” from the fall-down menu beneath “Geo Name” (below), it will also change the chart following to it (“United States-Regular Weekly Fuel Prices”) to what ever location, state, or metropolis you selected.

Equally, the time period of time will alter from “Last 30 Years” when I choose a various day selection, or spotlight a certain portion in the line graph. “The Min Fuel Price” and “Max Gas Price” text use Domo dynamic summary numbers, which permit me to incorporate metrics to my narrative. These are terrific instruments for making sure that people have the right context even as they self-serve with various filters and drills.

You will also observe below that we are experimenting with a narrative feature (even now in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I actually like this feature for the reason that it will help deliver new insights out of info in a narrative structure. As you filter for a new geography or a diverse time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Fairly darn cool, if you question me.

Considering that we released “Domo on Info,” we have been fairly focused on U.S. knowledge. That is considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all over the earth, but it basically has to do with the obstacle in obtaining metrics from other governments, which have a tendency to be great at featuring free data but poor at compiling throughout nations around the world. That stated, for this publish, we have been in a position to come across some facts on world fuel price ranges via the World Petrol Price ranges web site. The knowledge is not accessible for cost-free, but does give us some wonderful context. For occasion, although gasoline in the U.S. is a lot more than $4 for each gallon, it’s pretty much $11 in Hong Kong and only a little bit much less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will get the job done to bring additional world-wide details to these pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re wanting to know when the previous time fuel was under $1 per gallon in the U.S., the respond to is March 1999. How I long for those people times!