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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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dashboard

/ˈdæʃ.bɔːrd/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A wall of charts no one is assigned to act on.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A curated visual surface that presents selected metrics for monitoring and decision support.

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See also
  • dashboard adoptionMeasured by logins, because measuring whether it changed a decision was harder.
  • executive dashboardThe one dashboard that must never be red while the report is open.
  • single source of truthTerm struck pending the definitions of ownership, metric, and certification it depends on; without them the source is single but the truth is plural.