The session covers on the objectives and approaches to building data dashboards. Participants will also explore multiple online dashboards to evaluate their advantages and limitations. The idea that dashboards can be aimed towards decision-making (real-time) and information dissemination (public portals) is elucidated Participants will be taken through case studies on coimbatore SDG dashboard and NIUA smart city dashboards. At the end of the session, participants will be able to describe the purpose and audience of different types of data dashboards, cite good examples of the same and be able to describe the salient features of a good data dashboard that can support evidence-based decision-making