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

Question

Cosine Similarity article on Wikipedia

Can you show the vectors here (in a list or something) and then do the math, and let us see how it works?

I\'m a begin

Answer 1

This Python code is my quick and dirty attempt to implement the algorithm:

import math
from collections import Counter

def build_vector(iterable1, iterable2):
    counter1 = Counter(iterable1)
    counter2 = Counter(iterable2)
    all_items = set(counter1.keys()).union(set(counter2.keys()))
    vector1 = [counter1[k] for k in all_items]
    vector2 = [counter2[k] for k in all_items]
    return vector1, vector2

def cosim(v1, v2):
    dot_product = sum(n1 * n2 for n1, n2 in zip(v1, v2) )
    magnitude1 = math.sqrt(sum(n ** 2 for n in v1))
    magnitude2 = math.sqrt(sum(n ** 2 for n in v2))
    return dot_product / (magnitude1 * magnitude2)


l1 = "Julie loves me more than Linda loves me".split()
l2 = "Jane likes me more than Julie loves me or".split()


v1, v2 = build_vector(l1, l2)
print(cosim(v1, v2))