California Housing¶

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pretty_name	California Housing
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licenses	CC0
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Dataset Description¶

Paper: Sparse spatial autoregressions
Licenses: CC0

Dataset Summary¶

Tabular data containing California housing prices from the 1990 census. Also see this Kaggle 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["california_housing"].get_driver().get_iter()

Dataset Structure¶

Data Instances¶

A sample from the training set is provided below:

{
    'longitude': '-122.300000',
    'latitude': 37.81,
    'housingMedianAge': 52.0,
    'totalRooms': 1224.0,
    'totalBedrooms': 237.0,
    'population': 521.0,
    'households': 159.0,
    'medianIncome': 1.191,
    'medianHouseValue': 76100.0
}

Dataset Schema¶

All features are continuous floats

Data Splits¶

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California housing	20,640