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

You likely never will need a extravagant Domo chart to tell you that fuel has gotten quite highly-priced. But we went in advance and imported weekly common gasoline rates from the U.S. Power Info Company in any case. In executing so, we also get to take a look at just one of my favorite new options in Domo: Good Textual content, which lets you insert dynamic textual content inside equally notebook cards and in the title for any card in Domo. So, when you find a little something other than “United States” from the drop-down menu under “Geo Name” (underneath), it will also modify the chart up coming to it (“United States-Regular Weekly Fuel Prices”) to what ever location, state, or city you selected.

Similarly, the time interval will alter from “Last 30 Years” when I choose a different day range, or emphasize a individual segment in the line graph. “The Min Fuel Price” and “Max Gas Price” text use Domo dynamic summary quantities, which let me to incorporate metrics to my narrative. These are great instruments for making certain that users have the suitable context even as they self-serve with unique filters and drills.

You will also recognize below that we are experimenting with a narrative characteristic (however in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights about a specified card in Domo. I genuinely like this aspect since it can help convey new insights out of details in a narrative structure. As you filter for a new geography or a unique time period of time, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Rather darn neat, if you check with me.

Because we released “Domo on Info,” we have been fairly centered on U.S. facts. Which is considerably to the chagrin of some of my colleagues about the entire world, but it simply has to do with the challenge in finding metrics from other governments, which are likely to be good at presenting absolutely free knowledge but terrible at compiling throughout international locations. That mentioned, for this post, we ended up in a position to come across some information on world wide fuel rates by way of the Worldwide Petrol Prices web-site. The information is not available for no cost, but does give us some great context. For occasion, when gas in the U.S. is a lot more than $4 for each gallon, it’s almost $11 in Hong Kong and only a little bit significantly less than that in the Netherlands. Yikes.

We will work to carry much more worldwide facts to these webpages in coming posts. Oh, and if you are thinking when the past time gas was under $1 for every gallon in the U.S., the reply is March 1999. How I lengthy for people days!