In technology and data contexts, a dashboard is a visual display that consolidates key information, metrics, and controls in one accessible interface. Like a car's dashboard showing speed, fuel, and warning lights at a glance, digital dashboards present complex data in easily digestible formats using charts, graphs, gauges, and summary statistics. Municipalities use dashboards for various purposes: tracking service requests, monitoring infrastructure status, displaying budget expenditures, and sharing public performance metrics with residents. Effective dashboards enable quick decision-making by highlighting important trends and exceptions. Many cities now publish public-facing dashboards showing data on everything from snow clearing progress to development applications to COVID-19 statistics.