Hi all,
Thanks to the sustained effort of several contributors (thanks Maria
and Lucy in particular), the Boston housing price dataset is no longer
used in the examples of scikit-learn (nor in the test suite) in the
master branch.
To give some context on why this dataset is problematic, please ha
I very much like your paragraph, Olivier. I might recommend additionally
raising it as a warning when calling the data creation function.
For reference, in scikit-image when we removed Lena we raised a warning and
returned an alternative (the now-famous `data.astronaut()`) for two versions,
bef
Thanks for your input, this is also an extension I was thinking of.
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Isn't the Boston dataset available through openml? Maybe here:
https://www.openml.org/d/531
I'm happy to have the dataset out there on opemml, and for any material
that addresses some of the issues with it.
But for educational purposes, we don't need to have the dataset in the
package as long as u
