# (comp sci): Is there another term for public information screen?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 26, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comp-sci-is-there-another-term-for-public-information-screen/954971 "2021-11-26T10:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comp-sci-is-there-another-term-for-public-information-screen/954971/1 "2021-11-26T10:54:58Z")

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never mind: I was trying to find if a term existed for a display screen that needs to be visible to many people but is not necessarily “public”. Then I eventually figured out it’s _information radiator_ (or dashboard).

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comp-sci-is-there-another-term-for-public-information-screen/954971/2 "2021-12-01T11:43:53Z")

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There are other terms.

For example, the Chancellor of the Exchequor, the treasurer in the English parliament,  
is named that because the Exchequor was a allocation board in the middle of court, akin to a cabinet meeting … so if it looks like a chess board , it could be an exchequor.

There are other names. Traffic light. Ticker board. Heat map.

You better not call it a Public Information Screen System… P.I.S.S.

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**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comp-sci-is-there-another-term-for-public-information-screen/954971/3 "2021-12-01T22:54:34Z")

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Thanks.

Since this thread didn’t get deleted I should explain a bit what happened:

I had heard the term “radiator” many times to refer to information screens. But on googling stuff like “radiator UI” I was just getting pictures of devices to heat homes, and I was starting to wonder if “radiator” was just a word my company had made up.

After creating this thread I thought to try “information radiator” and many examples came up.

So sorry, it’s a kinda pointless thread 😕