PENGELOMPOKAN PRODUKSI TAMBAK GARAM DENGAN METODE CLUSTER K-MEANS DAN OPTIMASI CLUSTER MENGGUNAKAN ELBOW (STUDI KASUS: DINAS KELAUTAN KABUPATEN BANGKALAN)

Salt ponds in Madura are known by the Indonesian people as salt producers or it can be said that is generally called a island, especially Bangkalan Regency 2014 production increased from previous year. But not long after 2020 and 2021 Pond decreased. The problem occurs field of pond business Kwanyar District, to analyze problems exist regarding characteristics potential system. And Maritime Service difficult classify data. Responding Bangkalan, data mining system needed production. grouping grouped into 3 clusters. Where groups (clusters) used here, namely need increase (cluster 1), enough 2), there no 3), which useful for evaluating providing solutions. method K-Means Clustering method, well finding an optimal group using Elbow Optimization. results process obtained 1 = 65 production, 2 55 simply needs 21 doesn't Optimization Test find most K, conducting 7 cluster trial. result K comparison test with other Ks, looking at resulting SSE Garp values.