measuring flip-flop behaviour across several topics

I'm trying to analyze a behavior called "sentiment flipping" of users in a dataset, but I'm not able to step on.

Let's suppose that I have two groups of users, say them good and bad users.

My dataset contains N tweets that classified into 6 topics. The tweets were created by the bad and good users.

The 6 topics are about general issues, but 3 of these topics are about organization/individuals supported (A) by the "bad" users and the other 3 are against (B) their ideologies.

The difference between the bad and good users in their tweeting behavior is:

  • The good user posted tweets in some of the topics (and maybe all of them) without forcing "positive" or "negative" sentiment in the topics.
  • The bad user posted tweets contain negative sentiment on the topics against her/his ideologies and positive sentiment on the topics she/he supports. The clear difference between both users also is that the bad user posts negative sentiment profusely on B topics and positive sentiment on A topics.

How can I measure/show this flipping behavior in a score/value; given that each tweet is represented by a vector like: # of Pos words, # of Neg words>.

I think a good solution will consider how dense and ideologically clear the bad user behavior.

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Topic sentiment-analysis social-network-analysis data-mining

Category Data Science

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So I have a theory for this. We want to be able to distinguish users who are emotional and biased from those that are unemotional and unbiased. $$M = emotionality\\ B = Bias\\ t_i = tweet\ number\ i\\ b_i = bad\ words\ in\ t_i\\ p_i = good\ words\ in\ t_i\\ w_i = words\ in\ t_i\\ M = \frac{(b_i+p_i)}{w_i}\\ B = \frac{(b_i-p_i)^2}{w_i}\\ $$

M is the emotionality because it calculates the frequency that word is going to be an emotional one (instead of a descriptive one).

B is the bias because biased tweets will have more good (or bad) words than ones that hold both sides equally.

I don't know if this prediction will hold true, but i reckon if you plot each tweets x as bias and y as emotionality with a hue of good or bad, there will be two clusters (i am eager to be shown to be mistaken this certainly sounds like an interesting problem)!

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