<![CDATA[Students as well as community or household, as well as economic activities daily, including consumption. The student needs to choose a place to stay is also one form of consumption activities. There are many factors that affect student preferences in the selection of boarding houses, including price, amenities, location, income, lifestyle, and others. The rental price boarding and facilities offered significant positive effect on student preferences in choosing a boarding house. Based on rental rates and facilities it offered to do the grouping in order to know the condition of the student boarding house in the Village Tembalang. Grouping is one of the main tasks in data mining and have been widely applied in various fields. The method used to classify is K-Means and DBSCAN with a number of groups of three. Furthermore, the results of both methods were compared using the Silhouette index values to determine which method is better to classify the student boarding house. Based on the research that has been conducted found that the K-Means method works better than DBSCAN to classify the student boarding house as evidenced by the value of the Silhouette index on K-Means of 0.463 is higher than the value at DBSCAN Silhouette index is equal to 0.281. Keywords: student boarding houses, data mining, clustering, K-Means, DBSCAN]]>
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