I read an interesting post about dashboards, and more importantly how they are used in the military.

The overall idea is that :

• You want to mix result (output) and predictors (process control) in your dashboard ;
• You want to get the actions that are currently being worked on ;
• You should cycle through indicators once in a while and constantly re-assess if you are looking at the right thing.

And then, I saw an interesting tweet from JCS, the founder of Alan, asking what the dashboard of a given country should be. Interesting question.

Here is my take :

• Split of the budget versus estimate ;
• Happiness ;
• Crime ;
• Homeless ;
• Infant distress ;
• Innovation.

Time to build.