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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