Adult¶

Attribute	Value
pretty_name	Adult income
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size_categories	10k<n<100k
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Dataset Description¶

Paper: Scaling Up the Accuracy of Naive-Bayes Classifiers: a Decision-Tree Hybrid
Licenses: Unknown

Dataset Summary¶

Tabular data containing Adult housing prices from 1996 originated by the US census bureau. Also see this description

Download and prepare data¶

The dataset can be loaded directly via the squirrel Catalog API. Make sure that squirrel-dataset-core is installed via pip, which will register this dataset. Use the following code to load the data:

from squirrel.catalog import Catalog
plugin_catalog = Catalog.from_plugins()
it = plugin_catalog["adult_income"].get_driver().get_iter(split="train")

Dataset Structure¶

Data Instances¶

A sample from the training set is provided below:

{
    'age': 1,
    'workclass': 'Private',
    'fnlwgt': 45781,
    'education': 'Masters',
    'education-num': 14,
    'marital-status': 'Never-married',
    'occupation': 'Prof-specialty',
    'relationship': 'Not-in-family',
    'race': 'White',
    'sex': 'Female',
    'capitalgain': 4,
    'capitalloss': 0,
    'hoursperweek': 3,
    'native-country': 'United-States',
    'class': '>50K'
}

Dataset Schema¶

Contains 16 features.

Data Splits¶

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Adult income	48,842