https://t.kolsto.no/tags/dataviz/Posts on technology, infrastructure, and startups by Thomas Kolstø.Hugoen© 2010 - 2026 Thomas KolstøSun, 09 Nov 2014 14:45:00 +0200https://t.kolsto.no/img/avatar.jpghttps://t.kolsto.no/tags/dataviz/https://t.kolsto.no/blog/webgl-traffic-analyzer/Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:45:00 +0200https://t.kolsto.no/blog/webgl-traffic-analyzer/Thomas Kolstøwebglhtml5datavizsidequestA weekend WebGL globe for the ops centre video wall, mixing IDS and firewall data into eye candy that only I could interpret.<p>Last weekend I created a WebGL Traffic Globe Analyzer thing for our operations centre video wall.</p> <p>Here it is.</p> <img src="https://t.kolsto.no/img/trafficanalyzer.jpg" alt="WebGL globe showing the Atlantic and Europe on a black background, with red and green spikes marking traffic sources and a clock in the corner" width="916" height="662" srcset="https://t.kolsto.no/img/trafficanalyzer_hu_29e91e3ec5c8f543.webp 720w, https://t.kolsto.no/img/trafficanalyzer_hu_cb944b1a5b04e08d.webp 916w" sizes="(min-width: 1120px) 1040px, (min-width: 601px) calc(100vw - 80px), calc(100vw - 40px)" loading="eager" fetchpriority="high"><p>Project is deeply inspired by a similar globe I once saw in a lobby somewhere in Silicon Valley, but that one was &ldquo;just&rdquo; displaying aggregate search traffic. I&rsquo;ve tried to mix in some sensor data from our IDS system and firewalls to make it a bit more interesting to look at with our comparatively humble dataset.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s really more eye candy than useful, especially since only I know what the different colors represent (..but maybe you can guess some of them?).</p> <p>You know what they say, there are only two kinds of people in this world — those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets…</p>