Building a scalable public map for Singapore's general elections 2025
summary
A public election map built with Mapbox visualizes 2025 boundaries, live results and historical comparisons, is embedded on 20+ media agencies and draws 5 million viewers; the team ships continuous tweaks (about 700+ deployments and counting) after user studies that prioritized mobile (80% traffic), neutral color scales and embedable brand and language options. Launch exposes gaps: a 1,000x traffic spike causes rate limits affecting ~4% of users and 30–50 m postal-code offsets require fast data fixes.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and logistics
- 1:25About data.gov.sg and project context
- 3:59Why visualize election data
- 6:50Design process and user research
- 10:21Design challenges and solutions
- 13:50Engineering iterations and feedback
- 17:27Media agency embeds and branding
- 18:54Launch success and metrics
- 19:37Production hiccups and fixes
- 23:09Key learnings and next steps
- 25:37Q&A and contact information
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