Alvin Chua

Data Scientist @ URA. My interests are Urban Informatics, Smart Cities Technologies & Land Use Transport Modelling. Views are entirely my own :)

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Wrote a script to draw arc trajectories. Easy way to tackle over-plotting. #datavis #geovis #datascience Code here: https://t.co/uXVzzdhxV6

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

@atepoorthuis congratulations! Hope you’re having a good time in Leuven :)

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

@jwoLondon @M_Davieswrites @Nick_Pettigrew Started in Hong Kong and repeated in Singapore. Suprised to see this happening again...

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Really pleased to have @Tim_Stonor tell us about #spacesyntax in practise at the @URAsg Digital Planning Lab #DPX #digitalplanningexchange

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

“I love your parking app 👍🏼” @URAsg #urastaffconference19

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

@justinzhuang Why the duality though?

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

The flowmap we all need :)

[Ilya Boyandin 🇺🇦 @ilyabo]

https://t.co/lW7XOp1ENo can now cluster locations/flows depending on the zoom level. Useful for messy/dense datasets. For example, here are people moving across Australia on different geographic scales: https://t.co/xJQo7YQBOd Big thanks to @mourner for https://t.co/kQKFDXynQc

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

@introspect0r Haha now that you mention, I recognise it better 😄

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

We are at the cusp of a major revolution in the way cities are planned, designed and managed. Many research ideas including my own, are being tested and realised. Privileged to build a #scienceofcities in these exciting times. #urbanscience #urbanplanning https://t.co/KfoqJ3TCvC

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Thankfully much of this didn’t materialise 😄

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Oh an there’s an #ixd for #SG 😱

[IxDA Singapore @IxDASG]

Showcase your work to the global interaction design community. We're encouraging designers in Singapore to enter the @IxDAwards. Submissions closes 1 Oct 2018. Find out more here: https://t.co/0zDAdtCFcI

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Not science without validation 😄 https://t.co/p3EvWtF6Uu

[Ilya Boyandin 🇺🇦 @ilyabo]

Comparing between the evening and the morning commuting behaviors of a large city in https://t.co/hZs42QXzH3

[Jeremy Boy @myjyby]

Ready, set, go! The submission system for the @ieeevis Arts Program @visapnet is now open. Instructions and details are here: https://t.co/dzP1LowIc1. Looking forward to receiving a new lot of amazing submissions!

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Trade offs exist behind every policy/design decision, particularly in the urban context. Succinct & easy to read. https://t.co/DWmcJOXfeg

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

If you want to think clearly about transit, you really need to understand the ridership-coverage tradeoff. Our updated primer: https://t.co/K332HqGall

[Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @UrbanDemog]

A review of 85 Agent-Based Modelling platforms and tools https://t.co/18096IqUjN , including #MATSim @UrbanSim @netlogo @AnyLogicCo #ABM #AgentBasedModelling HT @danilofreire

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Maybe the definition of perfection differs between cities? https://t.co/p2N5RqAkFC

[MIT Urban Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social @MITdusp]

“We need to adapt urban design to the kinds of cities and societies that we have. Perfection is not really achievable,” DUSP's Brent Ryan comments on new book, The Largest Art

https://t.co/jSoglOjkPL

[Alvin Chua @Purestform]

Exciting, now where do I find detailed district plans to test this on? #opendata https://t.co/PnS63zI3Kb

[tomas polach @TomasPolach]

We've released a #depthmapX module for Node.js enabling the creation of #SpaceSyntax web apps like this one: https://t.co/HuMBihAxTf – NPM module: https://t.co/fimqfs0StM – thx to @Varoudis @pklampros @fredric_ @SpaceSyntaxNet

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Things that did not exist 10 years ago today:

Uber
Airbnb
Instagram
Snapchat
Bitcoin
iPad
Spotify
Kickstarter
Siri
Google Chrome
Alexa
WhatsApp
Slack
Venmo
Tinder
Square

#HappyNewYear #Happy2018