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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by skfingngihg on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:24AM (#34194407)
I’m sure we can find flaws in any number of the included data sets, but we’re not excluding those, right?

Why are people singling out this one dataset?

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Re:Boston Housing Price Dataset was Removed from scikit-lear... by micromacrofoot on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:25PM (#34198521)
because this one is flawed and comes with some racist presumptions made by the people that originally correlated the data (the presumption being that black people moving into a neighborhood decreases property values... a particularly white-biased correlation without causation)
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