Internet map: network data visualization example

Moving on from dashboards & scoreboards, let’s look at some cool data visualizations. This is a 2005 visualization of the Internet IP addresses — or an Internet map. It’s an example of data visualization for a network. Each line joins two IP addresses, with the length representing the delay between them.

Less than 30% of reachable addresses were used to construct the Internet map, so this Internet map is only a partial map of the Internet at that time.

Photo: Wikimedia/Matt Britt/The Opte Project/CC-BY-2.5

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