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An intuitive explanation of word2vec

No math, no code, just the logic behind word embeddings

Skyler Dale
Towards Data Science
6 min readJan 29, 2020

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The need for word embeddings

In traditional supervised machine learning tasks, a data scientist needs two key ingredients:

  1. Data
  2. An approach for finding patterns in data (an algorithm)

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