I rail at Google Analytics dashboards all the time. You'd think I would be interested in today's or this week's or this month's numbers, yet there are no option

I rail at Google Analytics dashboards all the time. You'd think I would be interested in today's or this week's or this month's numbers, yet there are no options for this in the calendar widget. People who write these things not talking with people who use these things in a meaningful way is a classic type of fail.