Who is working on social media data analytics, visualization, and research?
Generally speaking, there are individuals who research, and companies who work. For instance, the Wikipedia Category:Social media currently includes ten Subcategories:
- Social media accounts?
- Social media companies?
- Social media experts?
- Geosocial networking?
- Hashtags
- Social networking websites?
- Promotional alternate reality games
- Social media campaigns?
- Social media in fiction?
- Social software
However, the Wikipedia entry closest to your requirements for data analytics and visualization would be Social media measurement (aka “social media monitoring”), which currently lists twentynine examples of social media measurement tools:
- Alterian/SDL
- Alto Social Analytics
- BlitzMetrics
- Brandwatch
- Buzzmetrics
- Coosto
- Crimson Hexagon
- Digital Roots
- Echosec
- Edgar
- Engagor
- Facebook Insights
- Falcon Social
- Germin8
- Hootsuite
- Klout
- Komfo
- Mention
- Meltwater
- Social Marketing Cloud
- SparkCentral
- Shoutlet
- Linkfluence – Radarly
- Spredfast
- Sprinklr
- Synthesio
- Sysomos
- Brand24
- Vocus