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/* HOUSES Dataset                          Alex Dekhtyar     */
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/*                                         October 7, 2010   */
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README File

Dataset Description.  

  HOUSES dataset is a simple dataset used for supervised learning/classification 
tasks. This dataset describes a number of houses on the market in San Luis
Obispo county.  The protagonists of the dataset are a certain family searching
for a house. The intended category variable in this dataset is whether the
family visited the house during their search.  

Dataset Fields.  

   The HOUSES dataset contains the following fields:

         
           Id:  unique Id of each tuple. Not used in classification tasks
     Bedrooms:  number of bedrooms in the house. Values: {3, 4, 5}
     Basement:  flag indicating whether the house has a basement. Values: {Yes, No}
    Floorplan:  type of a floorplan. Values: {open, traditional}
     Location:  location of the house in the county. Values: {SLO, South County, North County}
      Visited:  indicator of whether or not, the house was visited by the prospective buyers. 
                Values: {Yes, No}.


    Intended category variable: Visited.



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