Trends are formed

from the combination

of things.
TRUE
 Music videos, image-sharing
mobile apps, and emojis are
some of the more physical
manifestations of people
captivated by the visual culture.

TRUE
A larger thing (the whole)
does not consist of
smaller things or parts.
FALSE
 Megatrend includes
urbanization, automation and
changing demographics.
TRUE
Macrotrends can endure
for surprisingly a long
time and affect most of
the society.
TRUE
 Notebook and pen are
basic in documentation.
TRUE
 Interviews and friendly-
group discussions (FGD)
are ways to catch
emerging patterns.
FALSE
 Documentation is the
stage where examination
and combination happen.
FALSE
 The important thing in
documentation is the ability to
physically keep information
and data wherever and
whenever you may be.
TRUE
New trends are labeled with
new names or terms in the
hope of popularizing a
phenomenon.
TRUE
Identifying Parts of a Whole
Trends as they grow and
evolve tend to influence or
give birth to other trends and
become interconnected and
interrelated.
Identifying Parts of a Whole
Trends are formed from the
combination of things. Thus, a
trend has constituent parts of
portions that are interrelated.
Identifying Parts of a Whole
Their influence, as well as how
the people adopt them, makes the
trend viable, especially the
megatrends
Identifying Parts of a Whole
Identifying Emerging Patterns
By simply looking at the
previous diagram, you will
somehow have an idea on
identifying emerging patterns of
a trend.
In order to follow and observe if
a pattern emerges out of various
events and phenomena, one
should have the tools necessary
to detect it
The tools that a trend spotter
should find handy to use are
categorized into four activities
which are as follows:
Documentation, Archive or
Memory, Analysis, and
Presentation
1. Documentation. means being
able to record your observations
which you consider related to any
trend. The primary tools for
documentation, however simple, are
notebook and pen.
- Note taking using Tablet or
smartphone
- Voice recorder
- camera
2. Archive or Memory . is used to
easily retrieve any documentation
you have kept. Notes can be scanned
or converted to a portable document
format (PDF) while digital pictures
can be easily saved.
 Physical archiving can, of course,
still be used. There are various
digital archiving systems that are
available, too. Tagging and cross-
indexing are helpful in labeling files
3. Analysis. is the stage where
examination and combination
happen. Looking for patterns on
prospective trends can be achieved
through these methods:
brainstorming, grouping, and
crafting combinations.
In brainstorming, you decide
which from your data is important
and which can be discarded.
Here, you can confirm emerging
patterns like events becoming more
frequent and things following a
cycle.
In grouping, you create headings
where observations and data can fall
under several categories.
In crafting combinations, you begin
to link one thing to another and think
what could happen if these are taken
step further, more like imagining or
generating new ideas.
4. Presentation is representing your
findings for easy understanding as a
way of analysis. You can represent
your findings through, among
others, a mood board and
a storyboard.
A mood board is a collage of
images, text, and object samples.
This is
used to capture your intuition and
stimulate creative discussions about
trends.
A storyboard presents a narrative of
possible scenarios. It functions to
connect trends to a timeline and to
different contexts, something that
can enable you and others to see
interesting new things.
A mood board is a collage of
images, text, and object samples.
This is
used to capture your intuition and
stimulate creative discussions about
trends.
Difference of Patterns and
Trends
Patterns refer to data from a series of
repeating price movements in a
recognizable form. Traders can identify
patterns from the price history of that asset
or the other assets that have a similar
character. The identification process
sometimes also involves the assessment of
sale volume and the price.
Patterns and trends are the techniques,
commonly used by an analyst to know the
current supply and demand of specific assets
traded on the market. A trend is the common
direction of an asset’s price in a certain period
of time. Meanwhile, a pattern is data from a
set of an asset’s price movement that goes on a
recognizable form.
More Emerging Patterns in Connection
to Trends
A linear pattern is a continuous decrease
or increase in numbers over time. On a
graph, this data appears as a straight line
angled diagonally up or down (the angle
may be steep or shallow). So, the trend
either can be upward or downward.
 Exponential Trend. This technique
produces nonlinear curved lines where the
data rises or falls, not at a steady rate, but
at a higher rate. Instead of a straight line
pointing diagonally up, the graph will
show a curved line where the last point in
later years is higher than the first year, if
the trend is upward.
Damped Trend. In this analysis, the line
is curved line to show data values rising
or falling initially, and then showing a
point where the trend (increase or
decrease) stops rising or falling.
 periods of time and are
therefore predictable and
where those patterns do not
extend beyond a one-year
period. Seasonality may be
caused by factors like
weather, vacation, and
holidays.
 It usually consists of
periodic, repetitive, and
generally regular and
predictable patterns.
Seasonality can repeat on a
weekly, monthly or quarterly
basis.
 It usually consists of
periodic, repetitive, and
generally regular and
predictable patterns.
Seasonality can repeat on a
weekly, monthly or quarterly
basis.
 Differentiating Relationships
between Causes and
Consequences
A cause refers to an agent that brings about
a result or a consequence. A consequence
is always traceable to a cause which can be
a person, thing, principle, motive, act, or
event. There is no cause without a
consequence and vice versa.