PENGGUNAAN JARAK CITY-BLOCK PADA ANALISIS CLUSTER SINGLE LINKAGE BERDASARKAN DATA POTENSI DESA SUMATERA BARAT

Abstract

Grouping regency/city in West Sumatra by the Village Potential ( Podes ) present important note by the goverment so they can determine so well targeted policy retrieval. The potential availability of an infrastructure based on the observed village owned by village / urban / rural of the five sectors , namely education , health , market building , electricity and roads. Based on the potential of the village will be clustered Regency/ City which has the closest relationship using distance Manhattan (city block) . Distance Manhattan has the ability to detect the existence of outliers better. Results of research clustered regency / city in West Sumatra into 3 groups: Group 1 (Mentawai Islands ) which is the area of infrastructure conditions of the area under average conditions the potential of the area in general . Group 2 are areas that have potential for relatively similar in terms of infrastructure , where this group of potential villages located around the central value of observed variables .  While group 3 (Pasaman Barat Regency) have an infrastructure that is above the average value of  the potential of the area in general .