Merge pull request #23 from srlearn/boston-housing-dep

🗑️ Deprecate `boston_housing`

srlearn/boston_housing/README.md

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 # boston_housing
 
+!!! warning end
+    The Boston Housing dataset is deprecated. It is included here for backwards compatibility and reproducing results in old publications, but should not be used for benchmarking future results.
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+    The dataset contains a variable `B` which is ethically problematic. The original dataset authors assumed that Black neighbors were undesirable, and that this would affect housing prices. However, this assumption was encoded in a way that makes it impossible to analyze further.
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+    We recommend the "California Housing" dataset instead.
+
+    **See also**:
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+    - M Carlisle, "[racist data destruction?](https://medium.com/@docintangible/racist-data-destruction-113e3eff54a8)" Medium.com, retrieved: 2022-11-02
+    - [sklearn.datasets.load_boston (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20221014215704/https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.datasets.load_boston.html)
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 "Boston Housing" is a common benchmark dataset for regression.
 
 ## Task