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Is English your main language? Not mine. I’m Spanish and I live in Madrid, so I decided to test how Plotly Studio handles my mother tongue with public data from Metro
(Madrid’s underground system).
What I wanted to learn about Plotly Studio was:
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How it handles data with special characters (accents and letters like ñ), which my file included both in column names and the actual values of the station names.
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How it handles being given prompts in a language that’s not English.
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How it responds to my petition to create the resulting application entirely in a language that’s not English.
Spoiler: the answer to all of those questions is “surprisingly well”.
This is a fragment of the text (in Spanish) I wrote in the “Set Context & Goals” section:
Todo el texto que aparezca en la aplicación debe estar completamente en español, incluyendo pero no limitado a: gráficos (leyenda, tickmarks, hovertext, descripciones al pie), título y descripciones de la aplicación, filtros (título/label, opciones, texto para placeholder).
You can read the complete prompt by scrolling down to the Spanish version of the text.
And here’s a screenshot from the “Outline”, which Plotly Studio generated directly in Spanish:
What excited me the most was seeing that the filter options (even the placeholder text!) was in Spanish in the first version that Plotly Studio created. I know that was what I had asked for, but I was surprised nevertheless by the level of detail.
I have to admit that, when I went to edit some of the components, not all of them had the Outline in Spanish, that’s something that will need to be polished. In any case, Plotly Studio handles “spanglish” quite well. I tried adding some instructions in Spanish to the outlines that had been generated in English and Plotly Studio understood it without issues:
Before applying the changes:
After applying the changes:
After making some more changes, here’s my Metro de Madrid app in Spanish: https://metro-madrid.plotly.app



