Penentuan Mutu Kelapa Sawit Menggunakan Metode K-Means Clustering

Abstract

The classification of the quality of palm oil in PT Tasma Puja is still done by laboratory testing and then the data is saved manually in Excel. The method of grouping takes time and allows data to be lost. With the development of knowledge, it can be replaced by a data mining approach that can be used to classify the quality of palm oil based on its standards. The k-Means clustering method can be applied to classify the quality of palm oil based on water, dirt and free fatty acids. The data used is the quality data of palm oil in December 2017 as many as 31 data with criteria of good, very good and not good. The test results contained 3 clusters, namely cluster 0 for good categories amounted to 12 data, cluster 1 for very good category amounted to 13 data and cluster 2 for less good categories amounted to 6 data. The k-Means clustering method can be used for data processing using the concept of data mining in grouping data according to criteria.