data.gov.sg

One place to share, find and use government data

The problem

Government data is hard to share, find and use, and it's costly for each government agency to run its own data platform.

data.gov.sg lets anyone find the data they need, and shows agencies what data to share and improve.

API use cases1,16117%

Website downloads105,3884%

Cost per successful data served$0.0018$0.0003

Consumer average rating4.23 / 5No change

People$332.0k38%15%

Overheads$319.4k37%48%

Infrastructure$127.8k15%29%

Tools$69.4k8%172%

Other$13.9k2%23%

Total for quarterSum of all costs$862.6k35%

Launched data freshness across the data catalogue. About 81% of datasets now show how often they’re expected to update and whether they’re on schedule, with agencies setting schedules for their own datasets.
Launched weather radar images from NEA to the public.
Opened self-serve chart creation to all agencies, with new options for formatting numbers and dates.
Real-time weather and environment APIs are now faster and more reliable. A typical request now takes about 0.01 seconds, down from around 1 second.
Dataset downloads are now about 1.8x faster.
Moved most of data.gov.sg (about 96% of traffic) onto our rebuilt systems.
Strengthened security across the platform, including stronger one-time passwords for agency admins.