Abstract:
Scholarship is given to individuals that purpose to be used in the implementation
of education pursued. Politeknik Negeri Batam provide scholarship that
categorized by academic achievement, non academic and poverty.
The analysis was performed by grouping the students that apply scholarship based
on Grade Point Average (GPA), the number of certificates and parents salary of
student. This analysis use clustering method, K-Means algorithm that grouping n
objects into k classes, based on nearest distance to centroid.
The final result of centroid will be implemented in applications that can group
students into groups of proper or not proper based on type of scholarship.
