Informational dashboard
A clear, trustworthy picture for people who are informed by it rather than asked to decide inside the organisation.
Weekly averages from 48 monitoring stations across 12 areas.
Each value comes with a 95% confidence range.
Published under an open licence every Monday at 10:00.
The data model behind it
Published air quality indicatorsA published aggregate with confidence intervals and a publication date on every row. Nothing below the area level is exposed: the grain is chosen for privacy and clarity, not for investigation.
- Tables read
- 4 of 4
- Joins
- 3
- Fact type
- Published aggregate with confidence intervals
- Grain
- One row per week, area and indicator
- Refresh
- Weekly publication
Highlighted: every table this view reads. Pick a widget to isolate its query.
Where it sits in the taxonomy
Its audience owns no decision the dashboard was built to support: citizens, customers, partners or the press. As soon as a team inside the organisation acts on it, classify it by that team’s horizon instead.
- Does its audience own a decision the dashboard was built to support?No, they are informed: public, customers, partners
- Informational dashboard
At a glance
- Audience
- The public, customers, stakeholders
- Decision horizon
- None owned; current situation plus history
- Refresh
- On a published schedule
- Interaction
- Light: pick an area, read, download
- Typical content
- Headline figures, maps, plain-language notes, open data
Not to be confused with
- Strategic dashboard
- Strategic informs leaders who will change course. Informational informs people who are not part of that decision.
- Analytical dashboard
- Analytical invites digging into detail. Informational publishes a considered, explained view and the data behind it.
How to recognise it
- Written for non-experts, with explanations next to the numbers
- Publication dates and methodology are easy to find
- The data can be downloaded
Use it for
- Public health, environment and transparency portals
- Customer-facing status pages
Avoid it for
- Internal performance management