Trends

Another way to predict the future is through trends.

Trends are similar to tendency, movement, drift, swing, shift, course, current, run, direction, inclination, leaning, bias and bent.

Trends are also similar to patterns and forecasting.

As you can see there are many aspects to trends.

Here is another aspect of trends:

Trend analysis

“Trend analysis is the widespread practice of collecting information and attempting to spot a pattern. In some fields of study, the term "trend analysis" has more formally defined meanings.

Although trend analysis is often used to predict future events, it could be used to estimate uncertain events in the past, such as how many ancient kings probably ruled between two dates, based on data such as the average years which other known kings reigned.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_analysis

Here are some examples of trends:

• Top 10 Hottest Fashion Trends
• Spotting trends in a line graph or any other graph to be able to make a prediction
• Trending search topics in Google