Classification Of Outstanding Students Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Based on Data Mining

Abstract

This research aims to classify outstanding students at the Pagar Alam Institute of Technology using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm based on data mining. Early identification of outstanding students is crucial for supporting potential development and institutional decision-making. Historical data from 245 students from the 2016 to 2018 cohorts were utilized, encompassing course grades and Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). The research process included data preprocessing such as normalization and splitting the data into 80% training data and 20% testing data. The SVM model was implemented with a Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel and parameters C=1.0 and gamma=0.1. Evaluation results show that the model achieved an overall accuracy of 89.80% on the testing data. The model's performance was further validated through a confusion matrix (9 True Positives, 1 False Negative) and a classification report indicating good precision and recall for both classes. Furthermore, an Area Under the Curve (AUC) value of 0.93 signifies the model's excellent discriminative ability. This study contributes by providing an effective classification tool for identifying outstanding students, which can serve as a basis for the institution to design more targeted development and recognition programs