&gt; And btw, good luck treating any kind of Big Data with JMP.<p>Oh I&#x27;m definitely not intending to. (To the commenter below, it really doesn&#x27;t matter how you define Big Data for that statement.) That much I had already figured out, which was why I was evaluating R with an eye towards pitching my boss on it.<p>The test case I&#x27;m referring to here was a pretty simple neural net to my mind -- roughly 350,000 rows of data, six predictor variables, one hidden layer with 30 nodes. I can verify that the neural net code ran because if I truncated the data set down to 1,000 rows I got a result back. But the full dataset just chugged for hours and hours without stop.