diff --git a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
index 791fe44..af545f3 100755
--- a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
+++ b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ def _week_similarities(week, simfunc, tfidf_path, term_colname, included_subredd
     
     tfidf_colname='tf_idf'
     # if the max subreddit id we found is less than the number of subreddit names then we have to fill in 0s
-    mat = csr_matrix((entries[tfidf_colname],(entries[term_id_new]-1, entries.subreddit_id_new-1)),shape=(nterms,subreddit_names.shape[0]))
+    shape = (nterms,subreddit_names.shape[0])
+    print(shape)
+    mat = csr_matrix((entries[tfidf_colname],(entries[term_id_new]-1, entries.subreddit_id_new-1)),shape=shape)
     print('computing similarities')
     print(simfunc)
     sims = simfunc(mat)