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Loading the California Housing Dataset

Loading the California Housing Dataset

The California Housing Dataset is available through Scikit-learn and can be loaded directly into the notebook.

Code

**housing = fetch_california_housing()**

Understanding the Dataset

The dataset consists of:

  • Feature data (data)
  • Target values (target)
  • Feature names (feature_names)

The feature data contains information about housing characteristics, while the target data contains the house prices that we want to predict.

Why This Dataset Is Popular

The California Housing Dataset is commonly used for:

  • Learning regression algorithms
  • Practicing data analysis
  • Understanding machine learning workflows
  • Benchmarking predictive models

Because of its manageable size and well-defined features, it is often used as an introductory dataset for machine learning projects.