Boston Housing

This dataset is typically used to demonstrate regression problems. The dataset contains the average housing-price
over various neighbourhoods in Boston.

There the set is used to benchmark regression algorithms. Typically, the housing price MEDV or air pollution NOX is used
as a target variable.

Schema
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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 - nitric 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 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
B - 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town
LSTAT - % lower status of the population
MEDV - Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's

References
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HARRISON JR, David; RUBINFELD, Daniel L. Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of environmental economics and management, 1978, 5.1: 81-102.

