Who's gearing up for SAS Global Forum? I am! I am! (waving my hand enthusiastically.) I'm excited about this conference because that's when I get to meet so many potential authors. Folks come by with ideas they've had percolating for years (or sometimes weeks, days or hours ... the length of time doesn't matter.

I try to go to the conference with some hot topics of my own, but I'm always open to new ideas. These are the topics I'll be recruiting for at this year's SAS Global Forum:

• Data Visualization
• Operations Research
• SAS Text Analytics
• Bayesian Analysis
• SAS Financial Management
• Power and Sample Size
• Reliability Analysis
• Survey Sampling and Analysis
• SAS Enterprise Miner
• Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
• Risk Management
• SAS for Sustainability Management

If you have an interest in writing on any of these topics, please stop by and talk to me in the SAS Support and Demo Area. If you can't attend the conference, please send me a note. Either way, I'd love to hear about your idea.