Curated list of the social media analytics resources

University courses

Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations by Queensland University of Technology
Purdue University: Digital Media Analytics
UCLA: Social Media Data Analytics
Tilburg University: Social Media Analytics
Social Media Analytics syllabus
Stanford: Social Media Analytics Tracking, Modeling and Predicting the Flow of Information through Networks

Online courses

Data Camp: Analyzing Social Media Data in R
Coursera: Social Media Data Analytics
Quintly: Free Social Media Analytics Course
Experfy Training: Social Media Analytics

Books

Social Media Data Mining and Analytics
Social Media Analytics Strategy
Mastering Social Media Mining with R
Social Media Mining with R
R: Mining spatial, text, web, and social media data
Learning Social Media Analytics with R
Mining the Social Web
Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data
Python Social Media Analytics

Free time books

The Next Billion Users
The Cause: The Power of Digital Storytelling for Social Good
Instafame Graffiti and Street Art in the Instagram Era
Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements
Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and Brand Communication
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
Outside Insight: the leading resource for decision-makers

Journals and Conferences

International Conference on Web and Social Media
Social Media Conferences
Information, Communication & Society
The Journal of Social Media in Society
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Online Social Networks and Media
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Social Networks
Social Media + Society
International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments
International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities
European Conference on Information Systems
International Conference on Social Informatics

Analytic groups and platforms

Social Media Analytics for Society and Crisis Communication
The Digital Methods Initiative
mediabiasfactcheck
Pew Research Center
Media Cloud
Sage Ocean

Open Source repositories

University of Bath: Collecting Social Media Data
University of Colorado

Tutorials

Twitter Social media data in R
Github tutorial
Excellent presentation about Social Media Analysis
Scraping with R
Visualizing Nine Years on LinkedIn using R
Analysing Social Media Network Data with R
Collecting and Analyzing Twitter Data Using R

Blogs and forums

Reddit:Social Media
Tristan Hotham
Social Media Analytics: The Definitive Guide
Brandwatch blog

Useful texts

The rise of social media
Social media data in research: a review of the current landscape
Mapping YouTube
After the ’APIcalypse

Data tools

wikidot list of social media data collection tools
Social Media Research Toolkit
Social media - statistics on the use by enterprises
Social Media Scraper Apify
Social Media Data
Datareportal
Mediacloud
Youtube crawler
Socialblade
Starngage
Influencer data
Internet Archive
WebHose
NewsAPI
ClaimBuster
tubular
Youtube data
VOSONLab Dashboard
Media Cloud

Social data vendors

Brandwatch
LexisNexis
mediastack
GDELT

Github repositories

Twitter Stream Downloader
Learning Social Media Analytics with R
Social Media Analysis
Instagram Crawler
Mining data from social media platforms
Curated list of awesome analyics
Reddit pushshift API
Instagram influencer dataset
Genius dataset (music)
Amazon Review Data
Youtube data
Bernhard Reider

Stay updated with current trends

Oxford Digital News Report

Other

My courses

Applied statistics
Multivariate methods
Computational social science
Natural language processing Beta version.