observations.boston_housing
boston_housing(path)Load the Boston Housing data set (Harrison & Rubinfeld, 1978). It contains 506 examples of housing values in suburbs of Boston, each with 13 continuous attributes and 1 binary attribute.
The data contains the following columns:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| CRIM | per capita crime rate by town |
| ZN | proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. |
| INDUS | proportion of non-retail business acres per town. |
| CHAS | Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) |
| NOX | nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) |
| RM | average number of rooms per dwelling |
| AGE | proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 |
| DIS | weighted distances to five Boston employment centres |
| RAD | index of accessibility to radial highways |
| TAX | full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 |
| PTRATIO | pupil-teacher ratio by town |
| B | 1000(Bk |
| LSTAT | % lower status of the population |
| MEDV | Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000’s |
Args:
path: str. Path to directory which either stores file or otherwise file will be downloaded and extracted there. Filename ishousing.data.
Returns:
Tuple of np.darray x_train and dictionary metadata of column headers (feature names).
Harrison, D., & Rubinfeld, D. L. (1978). Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 5(1), 81–102.