Some resources for starting your own Dashing/Smashing Dashboard:
Official Dashing webpage: http://dashing.io/
Which links to the Dashing wiki: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki
If you are interested in exploring the potential of a Dashing dashboard, here is a quick link to some of the widgets available (although you can always make your own!): https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets
When setting up this dashboard, we followed along with this video (linked below), which is a talk given by the creator of Dashing, Daniel Beauchamp, walking through the installation and set-up of the dashboard and a few widgets (7:48 is a good place to start following along): https://vimeo.com/95307499
There are also written instructions summarizing the steps in the video: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Dashing-Workshop