I was suprised that I got the following error message when I tried to use Boston Housing data in Python's scikit-learn (by the load_boston module). I think we should avoid using this data when you demo to users and prospects. I entered in JIRA ticket JMP-16844 that we should remove the Boston Housing sample data table from JMP.I have often naively used this dataset.
`load_boston` has been removed from scikit-learn since version 1.2.
The Boston housing prices dataset has an ethical problem: as
investigated in [1], the authors of this dataset engineered a
non-invertible variable "B" assuming that racial self-segregation had a
positive impact on house prices [2]. Furthermore the goal of the
research that led to the creation of this dataset was to study the
impact of air quality but it did not give adequate demonstration of the
validity of this assumption.
The scikit-learn maintainers therefore strongly discourage the use of
this dataset unless the purpose of the code is to study and educate
about ethical issues in data science and machine learning.
