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

You possibly never need a fancy Domo chart to convey to you that gas has gotten quite highly-priced. But we went forward and imported weekly ordinary gasoline costs from the U.S. Power Info Agency anyway. In executing so, we also get to examine one of my favorite new functions in Domo: Good Text, which allows you insert dynamic textual content inside of both notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you find something other than “United States” from the fall-down menu beneath “Geo Name” (down below), it will also improve the chart next to it (“United States-Normal Weekly Gas Prices”) to whichever region, state, or metropolis you chose.

In the same way, the time period of time will change from “Last 30 Years” when I pick a unique day vary, or emphasize a certain section in the line graph. “The Min Gas Price” and “Max Gasoline Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary quantities, which permit me to add metrics to my narrative. These are excellent applications for making certain that buyers have the right context even as they self-provide with distinctive filters and drills.

You will also recognize right here that we are experimenting with a narrative function (continue to in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I really like this aspect simply because it helps carry new insights out of data in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a distinctive time period of time, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Very darn cool, if you ask me.

Given that we released “Domo on Data,” we have been quite concentrated on U.S. info. That is a great deal to the chagrin of some of my colleagues all-around the earth, but it simply just has to do with the problem in having metrics from other governments, which tend to be excellent at providing free of charge knowledge but negative at compiling throughout international locations. That reported, for this put up, we were in a position to come across some details on international gasoline prices by way of the Global Petrol Rates web-site. The facts is not obtainable for free, but does give us some terrific context. For instance, while gasoline in the U.S. is a lot more than $4 for every gallon, it is pretty much $11 in Hong Kong and only a little a lot less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will operate to carry far more world knowledge to these web pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re pondering when the final time fuel was beneath $1 for each gallon in the U.S., the answer is March 1999. How I lengthy for all those days!