Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-learn 1.2

Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by josephcsible on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:55PM (#34190570)

Isn't that a measure of how integrated a neighborhood is? And even accepting for the sake of argument that such a variable is evil, why not just exclude it instead of ditching the whole dataset?

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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by threeseed on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:59PM (#34190603)

a) No. If 50% of the community is African-Americans and live on one half and everyone else on the other then it would be exactly integrated. Except of course it isn't.

b) It is not scikit-learn's responsibility to alter third party datasets.

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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by CoastalCoder on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:56PM (#34191109)

> a) No. If 50% of the community is African-Americans and live on one half and everyone else on the other then it would be exactly integrated. Except of course it isn't.

IIUC, you're arguing that "whole-town" level aggregation is misleading. So if we get more granular, we could do it my neighborhood, street, building, apartment/car/shelter, bedroom, bed, bed @ time of day, etc.

Any one of those aggregation levels could hide interesting distinctions that could be made if only the data were reported with even more granularity.

So are you arguing against aggregation in general? Or just whole-town aggregation specifically?

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