Village Grouping In Southwest Maluku District Based On Poverty Characteristics Using Self Organizing Maps (SOM) Methods

Abstract

Poverty is one of the fundamental problems that has become the center of attention of the Maluku Provincial government, especially Southwest Maluku Regency. This study aims to provide information to the government about village grouping based on poverty characteristics in Southwest Maluku Regency using the Self Organizing Map network method. In this network, a layer containing neurons will arrange itself based on the input of a certain value in a group known as a cluster. In the grouping process, 3 results were obtained with the best grouping II results because they had the smallest standard deviation ratio value.