The Housing dataset contains information about different houses in Boston. This data was originally a part of UCI Machine Learning Repository and has been removed now. We can also access this data from the scikit-learn library. There are 506 samples and 13 feature variables in this dataset. The objective is to predict the value of prices of the house using the given features.The 'medv' variable is the target variable.
This data frame contains the following columns:
crim
per capita crime rate by town.
zn
proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.
indus
proportion of non-retail business acres per town.
chas
Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise).
nox
nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).
rm
average number of rooms per dwelling.
age
proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.
dis
weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.
rad
index of accessibility to radial highways.
tax
full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.
ptratio
pupil-teacher ratio by town.
black
1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town.
lstat
lower status of the population (percent).
medv
median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.
The dataset can be downloaded from https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/housing/