skoot.datasets.load_boston_df

skoot.datasets.load_boston_df(include_tgt=True, tgt_name='target', names=None)

Get the Boston housing dataset.

Loads the boston housing dataset into a dataframe with the target set as the “target” feature or whatever name is specified in tgt_name.

Parameters:

include_tgt : bool, optional (default=True)

Whether to include the target

tgt_name : str, optional (default=”target”)

The name of the target feature

names : iterable or None

The column names for the dataframe. If not defined, will default to the feature_names attribute in the sklearn bunch instance.

Returns:

X : pd.DataFrame, shape=(n_samples, n_features)

The loaded boston dataset