Dashboards present and visualize key data, including trends and hotspots, in a single glance. The most common example in this subgenre are municipal dashboards, which display data indicators across a city for operators or citizens to monitor.
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Heather Froehlich and Michael Correll question if dashboards are "acting not as aids to decision-making but as devices to be passively consumed or observed: spectacles to “take in” rather than tools to guide action".
Katya Abazajian asks, "When so many data dashboards offer few satisfying answers, we might wonder why local leaders default to building them again, and again, and again. Is it too late to give dashboards a new purpose?"
Govtech: Chief data officers gathering at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Amsterdam recently looked back on all those data dashboards so quickly built during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
A product-focused tracker for public STOCK Act disclosures: newest filings, politician profiles, ticker pages, leaderboard context, and watchlist alerts in one workflow.
Every City in the USA tracks 19,483 U.S. cities and places using official federal data — Census population estimates (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025), ACS demographics, BEA cost of living, BLS employment, NOAA climate normals, and more.
An end-to-end example of pulling DC's open property data from its public ArcGIS REST APIs and turning it into an interactive dashboard + briefing decks.
Hawaiʻi civic hazard intelligence platform aggregating real-time wildfire, air quality, weather, and volcanic data from NASA, NOAA, NWS, EPA, and PacIOOS.
CommunityOne is a cloud-native local community data exchange platform designed to streamline secure data sharing and interoperability through an open system designed to promote engagement.
An open-source, real-time network observatory that monitors the resilience, latency, and routing health of Iceland's critical submarine internet cables.
The portal is a resource for analysts, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in understanding the nature and scale of online misinformation and disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.
The portal is designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for policymakers, researchers, journalists, the public, and other stakeholders to monitor the prevalence of deepfakes and understand their potential threats to society.
Open-source real-time city dashboard aggregating 20+ public data feeds (weather, transit, news, air quality, water levels, police reports, and more). Currently covering Berlin. Easy to apply to other cities.
OCHA carried out two global survey to assess the consequences of the US funding freeze on humanitarian action globally. The first round, in February, looked at the impact of the suspension orders and waivers. The second was launched in March following the announcement of the US grants’ termination, in collaboration with IOM, UNHCR and ICVA.
Digital Defense is a comprehensive resource that provides checklists and guides to help individuals secure their digital lives and protect their privacy across various aspects such as authentication, web browsing, email, messaging, social media, and more
The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.
The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.
Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.
A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase the efficiency of the city operations.
The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.
At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.
The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.
By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.
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If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.
With Trimble at your side, you can harness geospatial data collection and measurement technologies, field inspection and asset management tools, as well as analysis systems to engage with citizens, collaborate with business partners, and manage change and compliance to optimize your operations and workforce.