Seeing how Domo makes sense of the data shaping our world.
Ballpark figures: Analyzing MLB baseball attendance
It is springtime in the U.S., which means something as American as apple pie is back: baseball. And since there’s all kinds of great data around one of the country’s great pastimes, we decided for this week’s post to look at Major League Baseball (MLB) attendance statistics from the last 20 years, which is published on many websites including the one we used to get the data you’ll find in the charts below: ESPN.com.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Thursday, May 12, 2022
What in the (Netflix) world are we watching?
Every week, Netflix publishes what the top 10 shows and movies were for the week, along with some information on viewing hours.
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Friday, April 29, 2022
March Madness redux: Creating a data app
This post will address some of the data inconsistencies we ran into with March Madness, and show how we think about bringing data into Domo and automating some of these types of processes.
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Monday, April 18, 2022
Pumped up: A look at how the price of gas has risen
You probably don’t need a fancy Domo chart to tell you that gas has gotten quite expensive. But we went ahead and imported weekly average gas prices from the U.S. Energy Information Agency anyway.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Friday, April 8, 2022
Why the Great Resignation makes a lot of sense
Last fall, we did a post on the Great Resignation, and since it still seems to be a big deal, I thought it made sense to revisit the data and see what has happened since then.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Friday, April 1, 2022
Is downtown back? What the data on 3 big CBDs say
With some people heading back to the office, we thought now would be a good time to take a look at the anonymized mobility data from Safegraph to understand if downtowns are bustling again.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Friday, March 18, 2022
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Friday, March 11, 2022
What in the Wordle? The viral word game, by the numbers
Welcome to Wordle
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Sunday, February 27, 2022
From winners to chicken wings: 56 years of Super Bowl data
Well, another Super Bowl is in the books…
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Friday, February 18, 2022
Inflation nation? What the data reveals about today’s prices
There has been a lot of talk lately about inflation so it seemed like a great topic for a blog post. In order to get started we went back to our good friends at the Bureau of Labor Statistics who publish detailed data about the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Friday, February 11, 2022
The Olympics? Already? Yes—now get to medal tracking
Yes, folks, the Olympics are upon us again.
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Friday, February 4, 2022
Has the Omicron Wave Peaked?
Given that we are going through yet another wave of COVID infections (thank you omicron variant), the question on many people’s mind is whether this wave has peaked.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Friday, January 28, 2022
What 2 surveys say about the value of centralized data
Our team was back in action with our swag and survey machine at Web Summit in November and we brought the data.
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Friday, January 21, 2022
Visualize this: Charts that reveal preferred ‘viz’ types
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big believer in using data to understand data. And with so many people now using Domo, there’s an awful lot of data that can be used to understand those users. So for this post, we’re taking a look at what types of data visualizations are most popular among Domo users.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Launching into 2022 with an update on COVID-19
Happy New Year, everybody. We hope you had a chance to spend some time with family and recharge your batteries over the past few weeks. We here at “Domo on Data” did—and are ready to bring you more insights from the world of data
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Friday, January 7, 2022
Is Black Friday still a big deal?
We know that the pandemic has changed the way we all shop including super charging e-commerce and changing traffic patterns. In this new world, is Black Friday still a big event and how have people shifted their shopping behavior?
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Understanding the Great Resignation
There has been a lot of talk lately about the “great resignation” (don’t worry I have too much fun in my job playing with data to go anywhere).
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Friday, December 10, 2021
Thanksgiving Week travel
After a nice Thanksgiving holiday break, we are back to bring you more interesting data from the world we live in.
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Thursday, December 2, 2021
9 years of Data Never Sleeps
Every year (for the last nine years), Domo produces a great infographic called “Data Never Sleeps” capturing how much data is generated in one minute (latest version available here). We decided to combine the data from all nine versions so we could explore the data across the years.
By Ben Schein, SVP of Product
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Is it smoky out here, or is it just me?
Here in Minnesota, where I live, we occasionally get haze in the air, normally due to some wildfire somewhere blowing smoke our way.
By Jace McLean, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture
Thursday, November 11, 2021