IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISION TREE AND K-NN CLASSIFICATION OF INTEREST IN CONTINUING STUDENT SCHOOL

Education is important to prepare quality Human Resources (HR) because quality human resources is an important factor for the nation and state development. Therefore, it is expected that every citizen has the right to get high educational opportunities from the 12-year compulsory education level. This study aims to implement the Decision Tree and K-NN algorithm in the classification of student interest in continuing school. This study proposes combining the Decision Tree and K-NN algorithm methods to improve accuracy with the Gain Ratio, Information Gain and Gini Index approaches for the measurement process. The test results show that the use of the Decision Tree algorithm produces an accuracy value of 97.30% while using the K-NN algorithm produces an accuracy of 89.60%. While the proposed method by combining the Decision Tree and K-NN algorithms produces an accuracy value of 98.07%. The results of evaluation measurements using the Area Under Curve (AUC) on the Decision Tree algorithm are 0.992 and the AUC on K-NN is 0.958 and on the combination of the Decision Tree and K-NN algorithms of 0.979. These results indicate that the proposed algorithm is very significant towards increasing accuracy in the classification of the interests of high school students continuing school