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I once wrote an article and the editor changed all "data are" to "data is." I asked her if I was being old fashioned and she said yes.


> I asked her if I was being old fashioned and she said yes.

Google Ngram seems to agree: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+is%2Cdata...




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