Our First Analysis - The Boston Housing Dataset
So far, this lesson has focused on the features and basic usage of Jupyter. Now, we'll put this into practice and do some data exploration and analysis.
The dataset we'll look at in this section is the so-called Boston housing dataset. It contains US census data concerning houses in various areas around the city of Boston. Each sample corresponds to a unique area and has about a dozen measures. We should think of samples as rows and measures as columns. The data was first published in 1978 and is quite small, containing only about 500 samples.
Now that we know something about the context of the dataset, let's decide on a rough plan for the exploration and analysis. If applicable, this plan would accommodate ...
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