First of all, there are tons of materials focusing on processing text data and using various kind of classification algorithms to provide similarities and/or clusters. We will use an approach that is exactly calculating similar documents to the one we chose to look at, based on the “most important words” these documents and their related corpus contain.
Why? Have you ever used a simple classification or regression implementation to classify data — pretty sure you have. Today we look at very well documented approaches with high accuracy and solid performance. Though, what I found essential for my personal learning curve is, implementing similar algorithms and concepts to understand the basic idea. Having this knowledge in mind, you will hardly struggle to understand further reaching concepts. One step after another.

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