If you don't know the way to go, any road will do.

The dashboard is a collection of 16 metrics — from per capita income to crime rate, from kindergarten readiness rate to the cost of child care — meant to provide a snapshot of the economic, educational and social well-being of a community.

As I told Don Parker and Jim Sanborn of WCOA, on Monday, we called it the dashboard, because the dashboard of your car is the panel of gauges you use to know what you need to get your car safely from Point A to Point B.

We also talked about the dashboard's creation and the latest county-by-county statistics it features.

If you missed us then, have a listen now.