The Secret Atlas of Greater KL by Cha-Ly Koh

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

How well do you actually know your city?

In "The Secret Atlas of Greater Kuala Lumpur", we take a closer look at Greater KL through the lens of BIG DATA.

How?

Powered by a massive urban database, we examine the people of Kuala Lumpur and their quirky behaviours.

For example?

Ever noticed the mushrooming cafes in your neighborhood and wondered who actually buys these RM10 lattes? The number of cafes, it turns out, has a positive correlation to property prices in the surrounding area. Neighbourhoods with a high number of cafes are also neighbourhoods where property prices are most likely to rise.

By examining such correlations and relationships, we view our city from a different perspective and gain insights into the underlying currents that move property markets, as well as the people it hosts.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Koh Cha-ly is currently the CEO of Propertypricetag.com, a data company that cleans and analyses large amounts of city data, through its proprietary algorithms. Trained in city planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, Cha-Ly hopes to harvest intelligence from BIG DATA to help governments, city planners, corporations and urban dwellers to shape better global cities.