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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a word data" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and lacks clarity, as "data" is typically treated as a plural noun in formal contexts.
Example: "The report includes a word data analysis that highlights key trends."
Alternatives: "a data point" or "a data set".
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In a word: data.
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(To strike a balance so as not to sound too odd to American readers, I went through the report and added things like "a handful of" or "a swath of" or "a mountain of" before the word "data" so as to keep the verb in its singular form).Meanwhile, the New York Times's stylebook, like the WSJ, accepts it both ways.
And actually there was quite a lot of data — scrape is probably too blunt a word — but data which you could pull out of Facebook then that you can't pull out now.
Note the word "data" is a plural noun.
As Enrique Zapata put it, 'Just by saying the word "data", you're putting a barrier between you and the person you're communicating with.
However Marc Ambinder points out that Obama is the first to ever use the word "data" and present statistics as a means for decision-making.
The word "data" connotes fixed numbers inside hard grids of information, and as a result, it is easily mistaken for fact.
Everyone is suddenly excited by the word data and that's fantastic.
The mere mention of the word "data" makes some football fans' eyes glaze over.
The word data is derived from the Latin, dare, to give.
The word data science really took off after O'Reilly's Strata Conference in 2011.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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