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

You most likely never require a extravagant Domo chart to explain to you that gasoline has gotten rather high priced. But we went ahead and imported weekly ordinary gasoline price ranges from the U.S. Strength Facts Company anyway. In performing so, we also get to examine a person of my preferred new features in Domo: Smart Text, which allows you insert dynamic text within both of those notebook playing cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you select a thing other than “United States” from the fall-down menu under “Geo Name” (under), it will also transform the chart up coming to it (“United States-Ordinary Weekly Gasoline Prices”) to what ever area, condition, or metropolis you chose.

Likewise, the time period of time will adjust from “Last 30 Years” when I pick out a diverse date range, or spotlight a particular segment in the line graph. “The Min Gasoline Price” and “Max Gas Price” textual content use Domo dynamic summary figures, which make it possible for me to include metrics to my narrative. These are great tools for ensuring that people have the proper context even as they self-provide with distinct filters and drills.

You will also observe below that we are experimenting with a narrative aspect (nevertheless in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I genuinely like this element mainly because it allows convey new insights out of details in a narrative format. As you filter for a new geography or a various time interval, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Pretty darn interesting, if you question me.

Due to the fact we introduced “Domo on Information,” we have been very concentrated on U.S. information. That’s substantially to the chagrin of some of my colleagues about the entire world, but it basically has to do with the problem in finding metrics from other governments, which are inclined to be great at presenting cost-free facts but bad at compiling across international locations. That said, for this write-up, we were being capable to locate some facts on world gasoline charges through the World Petrol Rates web page. The facts is not obtainable for free, but does give us some terrific context. For occasion, although gas in the U.S. is more than $4 for every gallon, it is just about $11 in Hong Kong and only marginally considerably less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will operate to provide far more world info to these webpages in coming posts. Oh, and if you’re wanting to know when the last time gas was less than $1 for each gallon in the U.S., the response is March 1999. How I lengthy for those days!