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Boston Housing Dataset Missing From UC Irvine's Site

I'm putting together a series of blog posts on Python for R programmers, and I figured I'd use the Boston dataset of Boston housing prices.  It's a pretty well-known dataset for regression, and it's included in R in the MASS package and in Python in sklearn.datasets.  I know the data originally came from UCI, so I wanted to give credit where credit was due.

When I clicked the first few Google links that appeared, I got this message on the UCI site:

I'm sorry, the dataset "housing" does not appear to exist.

Weird that they're not linked at all, but I found these links.

Here's the link to the dataset in their archive.

Here's the link to the data dictionary.

Enjoy!

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