Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up

Posted on by David Vassallo

Scenario: When using Ubuntu Trusty (14.04.3LTS) Gephi 0.82 initializes but gets stuck on "Loading Cached Objects" Solution: The default Gephi startup bash script does not correctly initialize the JAVA path (it uses $jdkhome) The solution is simply to add the following to the beginning of the startup script (~/gephi/bin/gephi) export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java jdkhome=$JAVA_HOME The full script is … Continue reading Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up

Data mining firewall logs : Principal Component Analysis

Posted on by David Vassallo

In this article we'll explore how Principal Component Analysis [PCA] [1] - a popular data reduction technique - can help a busy security or network administrator. Any such administrator has often been faced with a daunting problem... going through reams of firewall or router connection logs trying to figure out if any of the thousands … Continue reading Data mining firewall logs : Principal Component Analysis