Translating Get It Done requests
Often, Get It Done requests come in with multiple languages in the description. This is a challenge for many City teams. In order to review the requests, many city teams need to have a translator on staff, or hope they know someone who speaks the language.
The Streets director asked Sam to help. He wanted her to translate the Get It Done requests by running a job at the end of every day.
Sam decides to run the requests through the AWS translate service. She has already loaded the CSV into the dumping_df variable and subset it to the following columns:

Help Sam translate the requests to Spanish by running them through the AWS translate service!
Este ejercicio forma parte del curso
Introduction to AWS Boto in Python
Instrucciones del ejercicio
- For each row in the DataFrame, translate it to English.
- Store the original language in the
original_langcolumn. - Store the new translation in the
translated_desccolumn.
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for index, row in dumping_df.iterrows():
# Get the public_description into a variable
description = dumping_df.loc[index, 'public_description']
if description != '':
# Translate the public description
resp = translate.____(
____=description,
____='auto', ____='en')
# Store original language in original_lang column
dumping_df.loc[index, 'original_lang'] = resp['____']
# Store the translation in the translated_desc column
dumping_df.loc[index, 'translated_desc'] = resp['____']
# Preview the resulting DataFrame
dumping_df = dumping_df[['service_request_id', 'original_lang', 'translated_desc']]
dumping_df.head()