Similarity Heatmap

Similarity Heatmap

Opens a small Streamlit app whose title points to a similarity heatmap. The listing does not say what it compares, so treat it as a demo for developers and students to open and explore.

Made by kingfisher on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: This is a small Streamlit app from kingfisher with a single main file. Its title points to a heatmap that shows similarity. The source does not say what it compares, and it names no model. You use it in a browser, or you run a copy on your own computer.

Who it suits: It suits students and developers who want to look at a similarity heatmap demo and read how a short Streamlit app is built.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Education | Data science students | Open a small Streamlit demo and study the page | Open the Space and look at what it shows
Software | Python developers | Run a copy locally and read app.py | Download the Space and start it with Streamlit
Research | Data analysts | Check whether the demo fits a similarity task | Try it on a small sample first

Skip it if you need a documented tool, because the source says little about what the app does.

Where to use it:

• A web browser: go to the Space on Hugging Face and try it with no install
• Windows, macOS or Linux: run a copy with Python

Use case | Who | What they get back
Explore the demo | Students | A page whose title points to a similarity heatmap
Read the code | Developers | A short app.py behind a Streamlit page
Adapt the app | Analysts | A starting point for their own comparison view

How to set it up: You need a few things in place first.

• Python with pip, on Windows, macOS or Linux
• An internet connection to fetch the files from Hugging Face

1. Install the Hugging Face hub package.
2. Download the Space into a local folder.
3. Move into that folder.
4. Install Streamlit and the packages listed in requirements.txt.
5. Start the app.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download kingfisher/similarity-heatmap --repo-type space --local-dir similarity-heatmap
cd similarity-heatmap
pip install streamlit
pip install -r requirements.txt
streamlit run app.py

How to use it: Online, use the Streamlit page the Space shows. On your own computer, start the app with the command below and open the page it serves in your browser.

streamlit run app.py

Example: You run streamlit run app.py inside the project folder and open the page it serves. The page then shows the similarity view the app was written to draw.

For newcomers and experts: If this is new to you, start online. Go to the Space and look around before you install anything. Reading the short app.py afterward shows how it works.

If you know the field, note that the repository holds only a README, app.py and requirements.txt. The source names no model, no data set and no similarity measure, so read app.py to find out what it computes.

Open the Space or run streamlit
The Streamlit page loads
You give it its inputs
The app computes similarity
A heatmap appears on the page

Good to know: The source gives no details on inputs, method or accuracy, so read the code before you rely on the output.

• License: cc-by-nc-sa-4
• Cost to run: none named, no API key, account or paid service
• Data it reaches: the files in the repository, with no outside account or web service listed

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 1
• Built with: streamlit
• License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/kingfisher/similarity-heatmap
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/kingfisher/similarity-heatmap/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.