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

You in all probability don’t want a fancy Domo chart to inform you that gasoline has gotten quite pricey. But we went in advance and imported weekly typical gasoline selling prices from the U.S. Electricity Info Agency anyway. In performing so, we also get to examine just one of my preferred new features in Domo: Smart Textual content, which allows you insert dynamic textual content in equally notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you decide on some thing other than “United States” from the drop-down menu underneath “Geo Name” (beneath), it will also change the chart future to it (“United States-Regular Weekly Gas Prices”) to whatsoever location, state, or metropolis you selected.

In the same way, the time period will improve from “Last 30 Years” when I decide on a distinct day range, or highlight a unique part in the line graph. “The Min Gasoline Price” and “Max Fuel Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary figures, which allow me to insert metrics to my narrative. These are great tools for ensuring that people have the appropriate context even as they self-serve with diverse filters and drills.

You will also discover listed here that we are experimenting with a narrative attribute (nevertheless in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I really like this aspect since it assists convey new insights out of facts in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a unique time period, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Pretty darn awesome, if you request me.

Due to the fact we launched “Domo on Facts,” we have been pretty centered on U.S. information. That’s a great deal to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all over the environment, but it basically has to do with the obstacle in having metrics from other governments, which are likely to be good at providing no cost facts but terrible at compiling throughout nations around the world. That said, for this submit, we ended up equipped to find some facts on global gasoline selling prices through the Global Petrol Selling prices web page. The facts is not obtainable for free of charge, but does give us some terrific context. For occasion, although fuel in the U.S. is additional than $4 per gallon, it is practically $11 in Hong Kong and only a little significantly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will function to deliver much more worldwide details to these internet pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re wanting to know when the past time gasoline was below $1 per gallon in the U.S., the response is March 1999. How I prolonged for those people days!