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.
House Price Prediction Using Machine Learning (XGBoost)
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