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ImportError: load_boston has been removed from scikit-learn since version 1.2.
The Boston housing prices dataset has an ethical problem: as
investigated in [1], the authors of this dataset engineered a
non-invertible variable "B" assuming that racial self-segregation had a
positive impact on house prices [2]. Furthermore the goal of the
research that led to the creation of this dataset was to study the
impact of air quality but it did not give adequate demonstration of the
validity of this assumption.
The scikit-learn maintainers therefore strongly discourage the use of
this dataset unless the purpose of the code is to study and educate
about ethical issues in data science and machine learning.
In this special case, you can fetch the dataset from the original
source::
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
data_url = "http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston"
raw_df = pd.read_csv(data_url, sep="\s+", skiprows=22, header=None)
data = np.hstack([raw_df.values[::2, :], raw_df.values[1::2, :2]])
target = raw_df.values[1::2, 2]
Alternative datasets include the California housing dataset and the
Ames housing dataset. You can load the datasets as follows::
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_california_housing
housing = fetch_california_housing()
for the California housing dataset and::
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
housing = fetch_openml(name="house_prices", as_frame=True)
Indeed, all the examples need to be rewritten with a different dataset. Ideally with Ames, but that requires changing the flow of the book quite a bit. I'm not sure if there's a reasonable way to address this without a new edition.
ImportError:
load_boston
has been removed from scikit-learn since version 1.2.The Boston housing prices dataset has an ethical problem: as
investigated in [1], the authors of this dataset engineered a
non-invertible variable "B" assuming that racial self-segregation had a
positive impact on house prices [2]. Furthermore the goal of the
research that led to the creation of this dataset was to study the
impact of air quality but it did not give adequate demonstration of the
validity of this assumption.
The scikit-learn maintainers therefore strongly discourage the use of
this dataset unless the purpose of the code is to study and educate
about ethical issues in data science and machine learning.
In this special case, you can fetch the dataset from the original
source::
Alternative datasets include the California housing dataset and the
Ames housing dataset. You can load the datasets as follows::
for the California housing dataset and::
for the Ames housing dataset.
[1] M Carlisle.
"Racist data destruction?"
https://medium.com/@docintangible/racist-data-destruction-113e3eff54a8
[2] Harrison Jr, David, and Daniel L. Rubinfeld.
"Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air."
Journal of environmental economics and management 5.1 (1978): 81-102.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4974606_Hedonic_housing_prices_and_the_demand_for_clean_air
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