Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer executable code that runs a digital dashboard application. The digital dashboard application includes a visualization data structure containing visualizations; a metric data structure containing metrics; and a metric box interface that displays one or more metric boxes. A metric box is configured to display a primary set of metadata associated with a metric in the metric data structure and the primary set of metadata includes one of the visualizations in the visualization data structure. Two or more metric boxes may be combined such that the metrics displayed in the metric boxes serve as inputs in a data manipulation operation. The output of the data manipulation operation is displayed in an additional metric box.