jSlate enables you to setup dashboards for displaying data easily.
A dashboard consists of widgets. Widgets are just javascript and can do anything.
A number of templates for widgets are provided to get you started.
jSlate provides a php proxy so the widgets can request data from off-site locations.

install LAMP

enable mod_rewrite

run app/config/schema/jSlate.sql

checkout to /var/www/jslate/

edit app/config/database.php to match your settings

open up localhost/jslate

The templates using proxy.php expect jslate to run on the root, i.e. localhost/

If you are running in a subfolder you'll need to adjust the reference to /proxy.php to jslate/proxy.php

jSlate is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

jSlate is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with jSlate. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.