
244 • Big Data and Business Analytics
however, is quickly disappearing with developments in computing, par-
ticularly the move from 32 bit Windows to 64 bit Windows. Recent exten-
sions to R further reduce this limitation, allowing data sets to be analyzed
from the cloud. Related to this, SAS and SPSS also have an advantage in
the actual modeling of big data, particularly in the realm of data mining.
SPSS Modeler (formerly Clementine) and SAS Enterprise Miner oer a
full suite of data- mining techniques that are currently being developed by
R users and are mostly absent from Stata.
Some of these modules are essential to many health scientist