# Overview Anticipation is the human cognitive ability of thinking about and living towards the future. It is a natural part of our lives and may be found in almost any situation. Anticipatory thinking and behaving are necessary to manage a complex and unforeseeable future. Hence, most of the time, people are engaged in an effort to figure out how to predict particular occurrences. In the face of complexity and uncertainty generated by an ever-changing world, anticipation plays a crucial role in managing the challenges and opportunities. Understanding how individuals anticipate the future is vital for effective future management. "What Twitter Data Tell Us About the Future?" is a part of the "Anticipation" research project, which aims at analyzing what futures Twitter's future influencers anticipate, what futures Twitter's users may expect, and how can anticipated futures can be modeled from social data. We discuss the development of anticipation research through different concepts, the features of anticipatory thinking, and approaches to categorizing futures. By reviewing related works, we establish a foundation for our investigation into Twitter's futurists and their projected futures. # Data, Code, and Visualizations ## Topic Modelling For the LDA model, see this notebook For the BERTopic model, see [this notebook](https://osf.io/w7vxb). For the BERTopic model trained on the full corpus, see [this notebook](https://osf.io/h498z). ## Emotions For the emotion analysis, see [this notebook](https://osf.io/rp3gy).