Measurement Lab

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

IP Route Survey (IPRS) data published in M-Lab

We are excited to announce that the Dioptra research group at Sorbonne University is making its IP Route Survey (IPRS) available on M-Lab.

How M-Lab Determines User Location and Selects Servers

This blog post describes the two geolocation systems M-Lab uses for server selection and data annotation and how researchers can leverage metadata about the server selection to identify potentially erroneous client geolocation results in the annotated data.

Pavlos Sermpezis joins Measurement Lab as Director, Tech Lead

Measurement Lab is pleased to announce the addition of Pavlos Sermpezis to our team as our new Director, Tech Lead. Many highly qualified and inspiring candidates applied for this position, and after extensive review we are pleased to announce Pavlos Sermpezis as Director, Tech Lead at Measurement Lab. Pavlos will bring 10 years of experience in internet measurement research, data analytics, and AI. Pavlos officially starts in May, and we’re excited for him to meet the M-Lab community. Thank you also to everyone who showed interest in working with M-Lab and for taking the time to apply. We hope to work with you in the future.

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M-Lab provides the largest collection of open Internet performance data on the planet. As a consortium of research, industry, and public-interest partners, M-Lab is dedicated to providing an ecosystem for the open, verifiable measurement of global network performance. Real science requires verifiable processes, and M-Lab welcomes scientific collaboration and scrutiny. This is why all of the data collected by M-Lab’s global measurement platform are made openly available, and all of the measurement tools hosted by M-Lab are open source. Anyone with time and skill can review and improve the underlying methodologies and assumptions on which M-Lab’s platform, tools, and data rely. Transparency and review are key to good science, and good science is key to good measurement.

Measurement Lab is led by teams based at Code for Science & Society; Google, Inc; and supported by partners around the world.

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Measurement Lab

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.