A measure of the angular distance between two vectors. Usually defined as 1-(cosine similarity).
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String Matching
I have to work on 2 datasets where I have to find out the duplicates in addresses present in both the dataset.
I am a bit confused that which one of the Levenshtein distance or cosine similarity, I should use in order to find the similarities…

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Is Vector in Cosine Similarity the same as vector in Physics?
I'm new to Data Science. I'm trying to understand cosine similarity and it seems like the equation is about finding the distance between two vectors. From what I've Googled, a vector needs to have magnitude and direction. But in CS, it seems like…

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Unexpected cosine similarity score
The cosine similarity method has been working for my other cases. However, it returns anti-intuitive results for the following example, i.e. intuitively, I expect l2 has high score than l1, but receive opposite results.
import numpy
def…

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