Financial Development Indicators: A
Comparative Study between Lebanon
and Middle East Countries Based
on Data Mining Techniques
2Laboratoire d’Informatique, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France
Abstract: Fighting poverty is one of the
main objectives of sustainable development program. In a country like Lebanon,
where poverty is a real threat and hidden under a good living looking, the
situation should be explored in depth. This paper aims to evaluate the position
of Lebanon compared to other Middle East countries in sustainable development.
Furthermore, our goal is to reveal the power and weaknesses of resources
management, based on income and non-income indicators retrieved from World data
bank. For
this purpose, we adopted a combination of data mining techniques as tools to
study the relationship between these indicators. The K-means clustering
technique is used to define the different levels of living. In order to extract
the most relevant non-income indicators to our study, information gain as
feature selection technique was applied. Finally, k-Nearest Neighbor (KNN)
classification technique was used for the predicting model.
Keywords: KNN, information Gain, K-means, world development indicators, sustainable
development.
Received September 27, 2018; accepted January 22, 2019