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data.gov.sg

Data.gov.sg is Singapore’s open data sharing platform. We work with government agencies to make their data discoverable, understandable, and useable.

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Since 2011

Built for citizens, public officers

Updates

Q1 2026 Jan-Mar

Handed over recycle.gov.sg to NEA, and facilitated the nationwide Beverage Container Return Scheme launch
Published dataset usage data for data producer agencies to track engagement with their datasets
Rolled out rate limits incrementally to encourage API key adoption, increasing de-anonymised API traffic from 12% to 37.5%
IPOS trademark applications dataset live, with design and patent applications datasets to onboard in Q2
Data freshness monitoring prototype built, user testing and refinement in progress ahead of Q2 rollout

Q4 2025 Oct-Dec

Launched public login and self-serve API key registration
Reduced dataset page load times: 64% faster for most users, up to 81% for those with the longest waits
Released real-time PUB flood alerts via API (4 Nov)
Automated updates for 459 geospatial datasets, including 207 newly added ones
Improved internal monitoring and reduced cloud infrastructure costs (projected $11.5k savings/quarter)
Completed independent security assessment; all 18 high-severity findings resolved
Metrics updates:
- Adjusted CSAT scores to a percentage base, scored by [number of 4 or 5 ratings] / [total number of ratings] * 100
- Adjusted downloads and API calls to measure only active datasets from Q3 2025 onwards, excluding metadata queries
- Categorised programmatic downloads as API calls instead of downloads from Q4 2025 onwards

Q3 2025 Jul-Sep

Visualised 30 day data freshness and uptime for APIs
Provided logs on dataset updates for tabular and geospatial datasets
Set up flow for public users to generate and manage API keys
Knowledge transfer to prepare for staff movements
Conducted internal Vulnerability Assessment Penetration Testing (VAPT)
Adjusted key product metrics to reflect current product focus. We will also be adding on-time updates for non-API datasets and admin user satisfaction, with considerations to include other data quality metrics in the future

Q2 2025 Apr-Jun

Provided real-time data updates on the Elections across 20 media agencies, >5M views
Conducted user research on public and business subscribers to identify data freshness as a key product gap
Changed last updated timestamp to show the exact timestamp
Fixed bugs on the data viewer (calculation of categorical variables, sorting, misrenders) and API swagger rendering
Published historical weather datasets

Q1 2025 Jan-Mar

Embedded Elections map in local and international media agencies for elections coverage
Polished the product, reducing search load time from 3.4s to 1.9s and improving responsiveness by 20% on average
Onboarded new datasets, including lightning and WBGT real-time APIs and the Dengue Cluster geospatial dataset

Q4 2024 Oct-Dec

Launched elections microsite with vernacular support (https://elections.data.gov.sg/en)
Added product status page for monitoring (https://status.data.gov.sg/)
Added Citations snippet for easy reference of citation instructions
Added Google Colab notebook for direct exploration of datasets
Enhanced the data viewer table on dataset pages to allow for iframe embeds, enable sorting of numeric columns and API code snippets based on active filters
Revamped the admin experience, improving the dataset validation and ingestion process, optimising login and providing admin metrics
Metrics updates:
- Started tracking number of engaged sessions, through dataset consumption or interactions with data assets

Q3 2024 Jul-Sep

Removed beta prefix from the url
Updated the Real-Time API dataset details page for API querying within the user-interface, added API schemas, status codes and examples
Added map-based visualisations on Mapbox for GeoJSON datasets, providing previews of the data and metadata viewers on the user-interface
Optimised core web vitals on both desktop and mobile to ensure optimised user experience (>90% good URLs and 0% bad URLs)
Deprecated legacy products, saving ~9.9K USD per month, migrated from Open Search to Typesense, saving ~3k USD per month
Metrics updates:
- Decrease in page views due to changes in the user journey wherein users may now browse datasets directly on the search results page
- Removed internal data sharing platform metrics due to scheduled deprecation on 31st Dec 2024
- Added intermediate metrics to measure progress towards search and discovery of data.gov.sg
- Switched from Single Ease of use Question to User satisfaction scores to measure overall user satisfaction with data.gov.sg from a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest)

Q2 2024 Apr-Jun

Revamped the data.gov.sg platform, including the adding of data reuse and usage metrics on the landing page
Added semantic search, filters, sorting and redesigned search to a split view for easier browsing of datasets
Implemented a new dataset details page, including a dataset preview, filtering and API code snippet for querying of datasets via the platform apis
Added a data viewer for viewing of sample data, including the summary statistics on categorical variables and null values, as well as filtering and search capabilities
Metrics updates:
- Backdated download metrics since Q1 2024 (changed from 193k to 123k) to correct for a miscalculation due to internal API calls for the real-time API datasets

Q1 2024 Jan-Mar

Added caching to datastore APIs, resulting in an 80% reduction of API call volume to the server
Deployed write APIs to allow government agencies to automate their data uploading workflow
Added NEA’s real-time weather readings for lightning forecasts
Metrics updates:
- Q1 2024 infrastructure costs were previously reported as $96707, but have been corrected on 10th Jul 2024 to $191919 to include additional product costs

Q4 2023 Oct-Dec

Introduced ability to generate API keys
Scaled up API infrastructure to handle higher QPS and reduce CPU load
Deployment of write APIs for automated data ingestions
Implemented datastore for E-Gazette Website (https://www.egazette.gov.sg/)
Automated integration with Singstat using Singstat Table Builder APIs
Upgraded integration infrastructure with NEA to message queues

Q3 2023 Jul-Sep

Continued migration of core functionality
- 100% human traffic migrated
- 100% charts migrated
- 91% API traffic migrated
Scheduled deprecation of metadata APIs for Q4
Shut down legacy.data.gov.sg application
Launched the admin panel, Admins now able to create, edit, publish and unpublish datasets
Admin OTP login implemented
CSV ingestion and validation based on canonical data formats (SGDRM)
Metadata APIs (dataset/collections listing and metadata) released
Metrics updates:
- Added the API calls from real-time APIs to the metrics

Q2 2023 Apr-Jun

Rewrote public application for data.gov.sg and launched the beta
- User interface redesign, including landing page, search and dataset pages
- Migration away from CKAN data infrastructure towards modern AWS stack (DynamoDB, RDS, S3)
- Upgraded read API infrastructure
  - Deployment of backwards compatible read APIs (96% of total API traffic)
  - Testing of upgraded metadata APIs (4% of total API traffic)
46% human traffic migrated

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