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Community Dashboard - tracking municipality metrics with enterprise dashboards

Remember when I lauded the enterprise dashboard approach to showing metrics relevant to the citizens of the Region of Peel? I really liked how the residents of that municipality could check on the KPIs and metrics that make up their quality of life. Well, long-time Dashboard Spy reader, Lynn Scott, sent me a link to an even better executed performance dashboard by a municipality - it’s the community of Whatcom, a county in Washington state that can be monitored via a really neat performance dashboard. Visit the site to try out this great dashboard. Here are a few shots of this really pleasing dashboard design.

Here is a clip of a section of the homepage with some highlights shown enterprise dashboard style with gauges:

Community Enterprise Dashboard

The view when you click on a See All Indicators link is a long page broken into KPI sections. Here is the economic indicators:

Community KPI Dashboard

This dashboard screenshot shows the education-related metrics. Note that the names of the KPIs are links. Also, note that the arrows in the gauges actually mean something. The graphics are not just placeholders. They actually impart meaning. The degree of precision is of course not high but are entirely sufficient for a thumbnail.

Education statistics Dashboard

Now let’s look at a drill down view. Here is the percentage of people with a bachelors degree or higher:

education KPI dashboard

Bottom line? I love this enterprise dashboard. It’s great for a community’s leaders, citizens and potential residents. Any more community dashboards out there?

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