M-Lab Knowledge Base Research & Analysis
3 articles
Reading Percentiles in Monthly Stats
How to interpret percentile columns in M-Lab Monthly Stats data, including the counterintuitive polarity of latency and loss, and what p50 vs p95 tells you.
M-Lab Monthly Stats: Pre-computed Parquet Summaries
What the Monthly Stats dataset is, how it's derived from NDT measurements, what the parquet files contain, and how to access them without BigQuery.
Exploring Monthly Stats with Python
A practical guide to loading, filtering, and visualising M-Lab Monthly Stats parquet files in Python using pandas, without needing BigQuery or a Google Cloud account.