Hi Cab, I have had a statistics dashboard project on the back burner for a while. A few dashboards that come to mind, all of which appear to use different back-end technologies: IU School of Library and Information Science<http://dashboard.slis.indiana.edu> Indianapolis Museum of Art <http://dashboard.imamuseum.org> University of Richmond<http://library.richmond.edu/about/assessment/library-statistics.html#library-instruction> Hope this helps. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Cab Vinton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Come budget time, I invariably find myself working with the most > recent compilation of public library statistics put out by our State > Library -- comparing our library to peer institutions along a variety > of measures (support per capita, circulation per capita, staffing > levels, etc.) so I can make the best possible case for increasing/ > maintaining our funding. > > The raw data is in a Excel spreadsheet -- > http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/public_library_stats.html -- so this seems > ripe for mashing up, data visualization, online charting, etc. > > Does anyone know of any examples where these types of library stats > have been made available online in a way that meets my goals of being > user-friendly, visually informative/ clear, and just plain cool? > > If not, examples from the non-library world and/ or pointers to > dashboards of note would be equally welcome, particularly if there's > an indication of how things work on the back end. > > Cheers, > > Cab Vinton, Director > Sanbornton Public Library > Sanbornton, NH >