merge and added StringDist to requirements.txt

dash_app/words.py

 import gensim.downloader as api
+import stringdist as sdi
 
 
 class AssociatedWords:
 
     def __init__(self):
-        self.N_RESULTS = 7
-        print('loading model')
+        self.N_RESULTS = 10
+        print("\n Word2Vec model is loading.This can take a couple of minutes.")
         self.model = api.load('glove-twitter-200')
-        print('done loading model')
+        print("\n Word2Vec model is ready. Enjoy!!!")
 
         self.base_word = None
         self.gensim_result = None
@@ -25,7 +26,9 @@ class AssociatedWords:
 
     def passes_filter(self, word):
         if 'www' in word or \
-                    word in self.base_word:
+                    word in self.base_word or \
+                    sdi.rdlevenshtein_norm(word, self.base_word) < 0.5:
+                        
             return False
         else:
             return True

requirements.txt

@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@ retrying==1.3.3
 scipy==1.6.1
 six==1.15.0
 smart-open==4.2.0
+StringDist==1.0.9
 Werkzeug==1.0.1