Hi all, Thanks to the sustained effort of several contributors (thanks Maria and Lucy in particular), the Boston housing price dataset is no longer used in the examples of scikit-learn (nor in the test suite) in the master branch.
To give some context on why this dataset is problematic, please have a look at this discussion and the blog post linked in it: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/16155 Now that we no longer use sklearn.datasets.load_boston internally, we have to make a decision about what to do with the loader function itself: deprecate it? just silently hide it from our documentation from our documentation (probably a bad idea)? keep it but educate our users about its ethical problem? Personally, I would be slightly in favor of the latter option and I drafted a short paragraph here: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/18594#issuecomment-707601448 Please feel free to share your thoughts so that we can hopefully make a consensual decision before the 0.24 release. Regards, -- Olivier _______________________________________________ scikit-learn mailing list scikit-learn@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn
