Overview#

M-Lab as a platform collects test data from many experiments running across our community.

If you're new here, you can browse our data catalog to find published and archival data from across M-Lab's many experiments and tests.

If you'd like to learn more about the tests that drive M-Lab data collection, you can browse our current and historical tests which drive data into our various datasets in M-Lab.

M-Lab Data Documentation#

Our knowledge base covers how to query the various M-Lab archives and datasets. We provide ready-to-use datasets on our Datasets page, and documentation in the Knowledge Base. We also have a Getting Started Page for Researchers in the Knowledge Base that can help you getting started with learning about tests, dataset limitations, and advanced querying of M-Lab data. If you have questions, please contact us.

Data License and Citing M-Lab Data#

All data collected by M-Lab tests are available to the public without restriction under a No Rights Reserved Creative Commons Zero Waiver.

Please cite M-Lab data sets as follows:

The M-Lab test name Data Set, date range used. M-Lab test URL

For example:

The M-Lab NDT Data Set 2009-02-11–2015-12-21. https://measurementlab.net/tests/ndt

or, in BibTeX format:

@misc{mlab,
        author="{Measurement Lab}",
        title="The {M}-{L}ab {NDT} Data Set",
        year="(2009-02-11 -- 2015-12-21)",
        howpublished="\url{https://measurementlab.net/tests/ndt}",

        comment="Depending on if you used viz.measurementlab.net, bigquery, or the raw data, please use one of the following notes:",
        note="Bigquery table {\tt measurement-lab.ndt.download}",
        note1="Google cloud storage {\tt gs://archive-measurement-lab/ndt}",
        note2="Data visualization system \url{https://viz.measurementlab.net}",
}