California Housing dataset¶
Data Set Characteristics:
- Number of Instances:
20640
- Number of Attributes:
8 numeric, predictive attributes and the target
- Attribute Information:
MedInc median income in block group
HouseAge median house age in block group
AveRooms average number of rooms per household
AveBedrms average number of bedrooms per household
Population block group population
AveOccup average number of household members
Latitude block group latitude
Longitude block group longitude
- Missing Attribute Values:
None
This dataset was obtained from the StatLib repository. https://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~ltorgo/Regression/cal_housing.html
The target variable is the median house value for California districts, expressed in hundreds of thousands of dollars ($100,000).
This dataset was derived from the 1990 U.S. census, using one row per census block group. A block group is the smallest geographical unit for which the U.S. Census Bureau publishes sample data (a block group typically has a population of 600 to 3,000 people).
A household is a group of people residing within a home. Since the average number of rooms and bedrooms in this dataset are provided per household, these columns may take surprisingly large values for block groups with few households and many empty houses, such as vacation resorts.
It can be downloaded/loaded using the
sklearn.datasets.fetch_california_housing()
function.