I have come to hate the term "dashboard" in recent years. The reason is every month I would be at a user group where some manager wanted to show off there amazing and ground breaking dashboard, that was in fact an Excel spreadsheet. My point being that I don't think most people's idea of a dashboard is generated by live data from an external source. Also they are also used to hide the data rather that show you have it. Recently I was asked to mine some employment data for insights in to equality. The catch was that I could only use the dashboard and had no access to the raw data. Eventually they got why I could not help without the raw data, but to them the dashboard was so powerful that it was a leap for them to understand it was not enough. Personally I use a dashboard for three things. First to visually check everything is okay in passing when it is not critical enough to set up some kind of push notification. Second to give me some information that I might find useful (I include train updates on my work dashboard as it will alter my scheduling). Third to help identify where to look for problems when things start going wrong. A narrow use case perhaps, but who is to say what a "dashboard" has to be. We also have a dashboard built in to the AV equipment. That gives us news headlines and internal adverts. I think that is just because it can.