KLASIFIKASI MINAT SISWA UNTUK PROGRAM STUDI JURUSAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI - POLITEKNIK NEGERI SAMARINDA MENGGUNAKAN METODE FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING

Students who have graduated from high school or vocational high school will continue to a higher level such as Samarinda State Polytechnic. Samarinda State Polytechnic consists of several Departments including Information Technology majors. The Information Technology Department has 4 Study Programs including; D3 Informatics Engineering, D3 Computer Engineering, D4 Multimedia Information Technology and D4 Computer Technology Engineering. This research was conducted by classifying specialization of students who would continue their studies to the Department of Information Technology, Polytechnic State of Samarinda. Source data obtained from questionnaire. Data collection was carried out by questionnaire method, the questionnaire consisted of 15 questions and had 5 criteria. Each criterion has 3 questions. The questionnaire was distributed to 160 high school and vocational high school students in the city of Samarinda, East Kalimantan. Clusters in this study are divided into 4, namely cluster 1, an interest in the D3 Study Program in Information Engineering, cluster 2 an interest in the D3 Study Program in Computer Engineering, cluster 3 an interest in the D4 Study Program in Multimedia Information Technology and cluster 4 an interest in D4 in Computer Engineering Technology. Fuzzy C-Means method is used in solving these problems where the results of grouping cluster 1 consists of 41 students, cluster 2 consists of 46 students, cluster 3 consists of 21 students, cluster 4 has 52 students. The average MAPE percentage for the whole cluster is 27.07%.