Can someone give an example of cosine similarity, in a very simple, graphical way? [closed]

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Here are two very short texts to compare:

  1. Julie loves me more than Linda loves me

  2. Jane likes me more than Julie loves me

We want to know how similar these texts are, purely in terms of word counts (and ignoring word order). We begin by making a list of the words from both texts:

me Julie loves Linda than more likes Jane

Now we count the number of times each of these words appears in each text:

   me   2   2
 Jane   0   1
Julie   1   1
Linda   1   0
likes   0   1
loves   2   1
 more   1   1
 than   1   1

We are not interested in the words themselves though. We are interested only in
those two vertical vectors of counts. For instance, there are two instances of
‘me’ in each text. We are going to decide how close these two texts are to each
other by calculating one function of those two vectors, namely the cosine of
the angle between them.

The two vectors are, again:

a: [2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1]

b: [2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1]

The cosine of the angle between them is about 0.822.

These vectors are 8-dimensional. A virtue of using cosine similarity is clearly
that it converts a question that is beyond human ability to visualise to one
that can be. In this case you can think of this as the angle of about 35
degrees which is some ‘distance’ from zero or perfect agreement.

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