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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by threeseed on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:03PM (#34190627)
Please provide a source that says that "number of blacks in my neighbourhood" is a measure of "neighbourhood integration".

It's a ridiculous and offensive premise from my perspective.

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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by josephcsible on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:33PM (#34190902)
> Please provide a source that says that "number of blacks in my neighbourhood" is a measure of "neighbourhood integration".

It isn't. Bk is "number of blacks in my neighbourhood" as you put it, and the whole point of using B instead of it was so that an all-black neighborhood wouldn't count as more integrated than one with a mix of races.

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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by CoastalCoder on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:44PM (#34191006)
> Please provide a source that says that "number of blacks in my neighbourhood" is a measure of "neighbourhood integration".

I wonder if the dataset design makes more sense in the context of Boston in particular: [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_cr...

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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by CoastalCoder on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:45PM (#34191027)
> It's a ridiculous and offensive premise from my perspective.

Can you elaborate on the problem you have with this?

(I'm just trying to not guess at your meaning.)

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