Information Dashboard Design

Stephen Few is coming out with a new edition of his book: Dashboard Design.  He writes about it here.  Have not read it, but may be the time to do that. From his perspective, what is a dashboard?    He concisely describes it as " ... Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring ... ".  In my view a form of analytics that seeks to involve the decision process user of the data as tightly as possible.