City of Beijing Data Portal

[zhte415]

Cool.

I tried to download a dataset. Registration, on this http://www.bjdata.gov.cn/tabid/99/Default.aspx registration page, requires:

Username; Password; Password repeated; Real name; Sex; Mobile telephone number; Fixed number / Landline; Email address; Checkbox whether commercial use is required (if so: Company / Organisation name; Company registration code; Company website; Area of business); Captcha; Submit button.

But it seems no confirmation of registration via email or telephone is necessary, it it just takes you to the page you were earlier looking for.

I love China's Internet, especially government sites. They even added a 2D bouncing Pong-style picture of an airplance on the front page, which probably got someone a promotion as that's particularly special.

[cadab]

> They even added a 2D bouncing Pong-style picture of an airplance on the front page, which probably got someone a promotion as that's particularly special.

Which is especially fun on mobile.

[rahimnathwani]

For anyone planning to hack on this data with Python, you might find some kindred spirits at the Beijing Python Meetup this Monday June 9th:

http://www.meetup.com/Beijing-Python/

[anu_gupta]

Chrome's automatic page translation seems to be quite effective here - certainly good enough to register and browse the site meaningfully.