You most likely don’t want a flowery Domo chart to inform you that fuel has gotten fairly costly. However we went forward and imported weekly common fuel costs from the U.S. Power Info Company anyway. In doing so, we additionally get to discover certainly one of my favourite new options in Domo: Sensible Textual content, which helps you to insert dynamic textual content inside each pocket book playing cards and within the title for any card in Domo. So, when you choose one thing apart from “United States” from the drop-down menu below “Geo Identify” (under), it can additionally change the chart subsequent to it (“United States-Common Weekly Gasoline Costs”) to no matter area, state, or metropolis you selected. Equally, the time interval will change from “Final 30 Years” after I choose a distinct date vary, or spotlight a specific part within the line graph. “The Min Gasoline Worth” and “Max Gasoline Worth” textual content use Domo dynamic abstract numbers, which permit me so as to add metrics to my narrative. These are nice instruments for guaranteeing that customers have the right context at the same time as they self-serve with totally different filters and drills. Additionally, you will discover right here that we’re experimenting with a story characteristic (nonetheless in pre-beta), which dynamically generates insights a few specified card in Domo. I actually like this characteristic as a result of it helps convey new insights out of knowledge in a story format. As you filter for a brand new geography or a distinct time interval, the narrative refreshes with new insights. Fairly darn cool, if you happen to ask me. Since we launched “Domo on Knowledge,” now we have been fairly centered on U.S. knowledge. That’s a lot to the chagrin of a few of my colleagues world wide, but it surely merely has to do with the problem in getting metrics from different governments, which are usually good at providing free knowledge however unhealthy at compiling throughout nations. That stated, for this submit, we have been capable of finding some data on international fuel costs by way of the International Petrol Costs website. The info is just not accessible without spending a dime, however does give us some nice context. As an example, whereas fuel within the U.S. is greater than $4 per gallon, it’s virtually $11 in Hong Kong and solely barely lower than that within the Netherlands. Yikes. We are going to work to convey extra international knowledge to those pages in coming posts. Oh, and if you happen to’re questioning when the final time fuel was below $1 per gallon within the U.S., the reply is March 1999. How I lengthy for these days!
