krishkatyal / boston_housing_pred

Boston house prices prediction

The Boston Housing Dataset is a derived from information collected by the U.S. Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston MA. The following describes the dataset columns:

crim: per capita crime rate by town.

zn: proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.

indus: proportion of non-retail business acres per town.

chas: Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise).

nox: nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).

rm: average number of rooms per dwelling.

age: proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.

dis: weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.

rad: index of accessibility to radial highways.

tax: full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.

ptratio: pupil-teacher ratio by town.

black: 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town.

lstat: lower status of the population (percent).

medv: median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.