Oooh, an old entry just waiting to be written. This one is more than two months old. Just waiting here for a day like today when I could show up and write something to fill in the blank space.
Let’s talk about Dashboard. A single, configurable view on the world around you. An amalgamation of publicly available data, or privately available if the costs are right, which is then arranged, sorted and filtered in a way which makes it both interesting and accessible.
There is a layer of commentary and people may choose to write articles about the data expressed in the dashboard itself. The dashboard can only show information. How many people live in a town. When thar information was gathered and who gathered it. What the margin of error is anticipated to be. What sort of things might affect the number. What other numbers might be relevant.
Conceptually, the notion would be to present information without an agenda. To display facts which are relevant and important to the person viewing the dashboard.
There are personal facts too. How can we gather those? How long have you been in your current role. What has inflation done to your income? When did you last receive a promotion? When did you last get a raise? An inflationary raise? How has the deal gotten better for your employer instead of better for you.
I don’t want it to be overwhelming. Money is an important aspect of everyone’s life. The decisions we make have larger consequences than we usually imagine. Or perhaps they have less influence. The point is that we should have some reasonable idea of what matters and what does not.
Also, the realisation that what matters to us and what matters to others and especially the businesses which surround us are not the same.
Fewer people got on the train in Otford.
What might the sources be? There are things like the ONS, price databases, things which can be scraped and researched, like retail pricing.