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Good news, everyone!
For some time now, Aven Colony has included a Statistics tab to allow you to view various types of data relevant to your colony -- resource quantities (water, nanites, ration packs, etc), morale factors (crime, crowding, unemployment, etc), and other relevant data (unemployment %, total population, power supply and demand, etc). All of these are available in charts that allow you to see how that data changed over time.
The Statistics dialog is incredibly useful for mastering your colony, and over the last 6 months, we've added support to a number of the notifications in the game to automatically show data relevant to that notification in the Statistics dialog.
We also recently added a feature to allow you to "scrub" the stats timeline using the mouse cursor:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/484900/announcements/detail/1262543429191110582
Now, we've gone even further, and added support for dragging the charts and the currently-selected data anywhere onto the screen, so you can keep the data you care about visible at all times.
Take a close look at the first screenshot above, taken a few sols into the campaign Azara Falls mission. Here we see the amount of food per colonist represented in green, with total colonists in blue. You can see the food quantity gradually falling over time, but bumped up occasionally by accepting quest rewards and receiving food shipments from the Colony Ship via my trade hub.
Here's another shot:
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You can also close these individually, so that if you only care about the data and not the chart (or vice versa), you can turn off the ones you don't need to see.
As this feature requires a mouse and keyboard, it will be available only in the PC version of Aven Colony at launch.
This feature is now available in-game as of Aven Colony beta version 0.1.18635
Paul