Cosine Similarity, Clearly Explained!!!

The Cosine Similarity is a useful metric for determining, among other things, how similar or different two text phrases are. I'll be honest, the first time I saw the equation for The Cosine Similarity, I was scared. However, it turns out to be really quite simple, and this StatQuest walks you through it, one-step-at-a-time. BAM!!!

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0:00 Awesome song and introduction
1:46 Visualizing the Cosine Similarity for two phrases
6:19 The equation for the Cosine Similarity

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[marchanselthomas]

The explanation is so clean. I was clapping for him from my room. How can someone be so good at their job!

[jwilliams]

You are EXCEPTIONALLY good at CLEARLY describing complex topics!!! Thank you!

[torley]

QUADRUPLE BAM!!! Thanks for such fun yet pragmatic explainers.

[mattgenaro]

Such a simple, yet, a beautiful and powerful concept of similarity.
Thanks, StatQuest!

[emnafekii]

Perfect explanation + right amount of humour needed BAAAM !

[usamsersultanov]

I think and hope that this video is a preamble for more comlex NLP topics such as Word Embeddings etc.. many thanks for all of your efforts!

[tysontakayushi]

I usually hate when people say that a video explains well, because usually this is not the case. But, haha, amazing job! Well done, really nice explained, it's a gamification, they way I understand!

[jasonlough]

Dude these are so good. I have to watch them several times, and then I try write some code to reinforce the concept. Your vides are absolutely amazing.

[RonnieDenzel]

Never understood something in such a slow but efficient pace, thanks💯

[virenpai]

My Love for learning Data Science and Statistics has increased multi-folds because of you. Thank you Josh!!🙂

[nouhafougi]

your explanation is top notch i really love it, you just gained a new subscriber !

[chris-graham]

"in contrast, this last sentence is from someone who does not like troll 2" - I was expecting a BOOOO after that lol

[dukeduke]

This guy is seriously funny. I thought I was the only person who ever watched gymkata (like 50 times, especially the part in the town where everyone was crazy). This video def explains cosine sim clearly. Thk u!

[DrKnowsMore]

Like most things, it is relatively straightforward when you remove the jargon

[nossonweissman]

You literally make it so easy!!
I can't help but smile 😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️
By far one of my favorite YouTube channels!

[yashDHAdod]

my college professors literally have your videos in the study materials
LEGEND
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I got this video from that material)

[AreyHawUstad]

Holy shit did I land on a gold mine. Love the explanation (minus the intro, sorry Josh). Thanks a bunch!

[MOROCCANFREEMIND]

The quality of your explanation is more than triple bam!!😂

[limebro]

This video saved me, I cannot thank you enough.

[AmineBELALIA]

this video needs more views it is awesome