(Need thinking) Study on popularity of Blockchain Platform

There are many blockchain platforms on the market nowadays. I wonder what are they, how they compare with each other, and how often they are appear on social media, Internet, stack exchange, and similar sources. Combined this with the development history and the technology that they possess, I can identify rising star in the field and provide interesting insights on whether there is any correlation between their technology the speed of their rise.

I need to formulate variables and research questions from these ones before conducting anything.