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Some discussion of the dataset and issues - this link claims it was removed in June 2020 https://fairlearn.org/main/user_guide/datasets/boston_housing_data.html
by erehweb 4y ago
Some discussion of the dataset and issues - this link claims it was removed in June 2020 https://fairlearn.org/main/user_guide/datasets/boston_housing_data.html https://fairlearn.org/main/user_guide/datasets/boston_housin...
- VHRanger 4y agoI'm annoyed that the dataset has the B variable and the LSAT variable encoding some manually-chosen hyperparameters in the formula creating them. If the dataset gave the raw features it would be better at least
- pxmpxm 4y agoThis - it's really encoding the authors' model with some magic values in there. Not even ethics, just bad stats. The correct step would be back out the raw proportion of black population, rather than the output of that quadratic model. Edit: D'oh 62% and 64% black neighborhoods get the same B. Couple glasses of wine in already, math is hard...