What Is This Project?
This project visualizes BOINC's credits. People earn these credits by letting their computers do computations for a project. By visualizing credits, it shows the approximate amount of computations done though BOINC.
What Is BOINC?
BOINC is a platform that allows people to donate their computer to science and other computational projects. This means an organization doesn't have to build up an expensive supercomputer and can take advantage of the volunteered computers around the world.
Why It Matters
Idle Processing Power
Use wasted processing power
There are around 900 million computers in the world, and they mostly sit waiting. BOINC helps put untapped power to use.
Scale
Over 800,000 active devices
If BOINC were a supercomputer it would be the world's third most powerful supercomputer (as of January 2018)
Results
165+ papers have been published
Discoveries from BOINC range from ways to limit malaria to finding pulsars. See more discoveries here.
Almost Anyone Can Help
Allows more public interaction
People with a computer or smartphone can help. This allows a more direct relation between the public and science.
Cost
Only a server needs to be setup
Instead of having to host or rent an entire supercomputer, only a server needs to be setup.
Open Source
See and modify code for your needs
No need to buy a license or be restricted by what's available. See a list of all the code respositories here
Methodology
Data collection was done across various different BOINC statistics sites. One of these sites' operators sent a partial archive of statistics after emailing. Since the rest didn't have a public archive of statistics, web.archive.org was used.

These sites were:
BOINC Stats
boinc.netsoft-online.com (sent the partial archive)
predictor.scripps.edu:
Boinc Synergy

In the case of BOINC Stats' 40 day recent credit, the data was taken semi-automatically. For the rest, data was taken manually due to the changing nature of the sites.

The earliest data came from predictor.sripss.edu with it being the first BOINC project. Data was included from here until Seti@home ended their beta. At that point predictor.sripss.edu was no longer the only project on BOINC.

Data added from the data sent by owner of boinc.netsoft-online.com can be seen here

The rest of the sources, excluding BOINC Synergy, did not require a stopping point since these sites are still operating today. On occasion, datapoints from the same day conflicted with each other. When this happened, the datapoint closest to other points was used to ensure a more accurate trendline.

For interpreting data, see the sourcecode here. Some extrapolation was done with the "credit per day" reported by statistics sites. If there was a listed "credit per day" and a "total credit" on the same day, the "credits per day" would subtracted from the total credits to determine the previous day's total credits.