I get the following error:

TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) C:\Users\levanim\Desktop\Levani Predictive\cosinesimilarity1.py in <module>() 39 40 for i in meowmix_nearest_neighbors.index: ---> 41 top_ten = pd.DataFrame(similarity_matrix.ix[i,]).sort([i], ascending=False[1:6]).index.values 42 meowmix_nearest_neighbors.ix[i,:] = top_ten 43 TypeError: 'bool' object is not subscriptable 

for the following code. I'm new to Python and can't quite put my finger on how I have to change the syntax(if its a syntax python 3 problem). Anybody encounter this? I think it's to do with the ascending=False[1:6] portion and have spent some time banging my head against the wall. Hoping it's a simple fix but don't know enough

import numpy as np import pandas as pd from scipy.spatial.distance import cosine enrollments = pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\levanim\Desktop\Levani Predictive\smallsample.csv') meowmix = enrollments.fillna(0) meowmix.ix[0:5,0:5] def getCosine(x,y) : cosine = np.sum(x*y) / (np.sqrt(np.sum(x*x)) * np.sqrt(np.sum(y*y))) return cosine print("done creating cosine function") similarity_matrix = pd.DataFrame(index=meowmix.columns, columns=meowmix.columns) similarity_matrix = similarity_matrix.fillna(np.nan) similarity_matrix.ix[0:5,0:5] print("done creating a matrix placeholder") for i in similarity_matrix.columns: for j in similarity_matrix.columns: similarity_matrix.ix[i,j] = getCosine(meowmix[i].values, meowmix[j].values) print("done looping through each column and filling in placeholder with cosine similarities") meowmix_nearest_neighbors = pd.DataFrame(index=meowmix.columns, columns=['top_'+str(i+1) for i in range(5)]) meowmix_nearest_neighbors = meowmix_nearest_neighbors.fillna(np.nan) print("done creating a nearest neighbor placeholder for each item") for i in meowmix_nearest_neighbors.index: top_ten = pd.DataFrame(similarity_matrix.ix[i,]).sort([i], ascending=False[1:6]).index.values meowmix_nearest_neighbors.ix[i,:] = top_ten print("done creating the top 5 neighbors for each item") meowmix_nearest_neighbors.head() 
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2 Answers

Instead of

 top_ten = pd.DataFrame(similarity_matrix.ix[i,]).sort([i], ascending=False[1:6]).index.values 

use

 top_ten = pd.DataFrame(similarity_matrix.ix[i,]).sort([i], ascending=False), [1:6]).index.values 

(i. e. insert ), just after the False.)

False is the value of the sort() method parameter with meaning "not in ascending order", i. e. requiring the descending one. So you need to terminate the sort() method parameter list with ) and then delimit the 1st parameter of the DataFrame constructor from the 2nd one with , .

[1:6] is the second parameter of the DataFrame constructor (the index to use for resulting frame)

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Yeah, you can't do False[1:6] - False is a boolean, meaning it can only be one of two things (False or True)

Just change it to False and your problem will be solved.

the [1:6] construct is for working with lists. So if you had, for example:

theList = [ "a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l" ] print theList # (prints the whole list) print theList[1] # "b" print theList[1:6] # ['b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'] 

In python, this is called "slicing", and can be quite useful.

You can also do things like:

print theList[6:] # everything in the list after "f" print theList[:6] # everything in the list before "f", but including f 

I encourage you to play with this using Jupyter Notebook - and of course, read the documentation

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