data.gov.sg

speaker: Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister in charge of Smart Nation event: GeekCampSG 2015 ** data does not obey the law of scacity not a zero-sum game open data, open source society ** singapore is a nation of hackers earlier pioneers had to “hack” the nation ** beta.data.gov.sg improve the usability of the data stores all the historical data and provides API to retrieve it visualizations/dashboards long form analysis in the blogs built with

• CKAN
• solr
• mezzanine
• d3.js hosted on
• EC2
• RDS
• S3/Glacier
• docker ** getting data normalized culture problem gov data in spreadsheets, word tables “tidy data” standard ** semantics/context is also a problem definition of “child” is different in different agencies ** ultimately data.sg not just data.gov.sg