Dashboard (computing)

In computer information systems, a dashboard is a type of graphical user interface which often provides at-a-glance views of data relevant to a particular objective or process through a combination of visualizations and summary information. In other usage, "dashboard" is another name for "progress report" or "report" and is considered a form of data visualization.

For other uses, see Dashboard (disambiguation).

The “dashboard” is often accessible by a web browser and is usually linked to regularly updating data sources. Dashboards are often interactive and facilitate users to explore the data themselves.

Well known dashboards include Google Analytics dashboards, used on 55% of all websites, which show activity on a website; such as visits, entry pages, bounce rate and traffic sources.

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 brought other dashboards to the fore, with the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker and the UK government coronavirus tracker being good examples. In the United States, the governments of all 50 states, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, employed dashboards on their websites to communicate COVID-19 information with the public.

The term dashboard originates from the automobile dashboard where drivers monitor the major functions at a glance via the instrument panel.

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