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

You probably really do not want a extravagant Domo chart to tell you that fuel has gotten quite highly-priced. But we went forward and imported weekly typical gasoline selling prices from the U.S. Energy Facts Agency in any case. In doing so, we also get to investigate just one of my favored new capabilities in Domo: Good Text, 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 find one thing other than “United States” from the drop-down menu under “Geo Name” (beneath), it will also modify the chart subsequent to it (“United States-Regular Weekly Fuel Prices”) to no matter what area, point out, or town you selected.

Equally, the time time period will improve from “Last 30 Years” when I find a diverse date array, or emphasize a unique segment in the line graph. “The Min Gas Price” and “Max Gasoline Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary numbers, which make it possible for me to incorporate metrics to my narrative. These are great tools for guaranteeing that customers have the appropriate context even as they self-provide with various filters and drills.

You will also recognize listed here that we are experimenting with a narrative feature (continue to in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I truly like this aspect due to the fact it aids provide new insights out of knowledge in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a distinct time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Very darn cool, if you question me.

Considering that we introduced “Domo on Info,” we have been fairly concentrated on U.S. knowledge. That’s considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all around the world, but it just has to do with the problem in finding metrics from other governments, which have a tendency to be good at offering no cost information but poor at compiling throughout countries. That explained, for this put up, we were ready to uncover some information on world-wide fuel charges via the World Petrol Selling prices site. The data is not offered for absolutely free, but does give us some terrific context. For occasion, though gas in the U.S. is more than $4 for each gallon, it’s practically $11 in Hong Kong and only somewhat significantly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will perform to carry extra world knowledge to these webpages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re pondering when the previous time fuel was under $1 per gallon in the U.S., the answer is March 1999. How I extended for those people times!