The phrase "acknowledge that the data" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express recognition or acceptance of specific data or information in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "In our report, we must acknowledge that the data collected during the survey indicates a significant trend in consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "recognize that the data" or "accept that the data".
Proponents acknowledge that the data is limited to a handful of campuses.
The authors acknowledge that the data depends on self-reports from patients who were not examined clinically.
These authors thoughtfully considered the same factors argued to support a cannabis schizophrenia link, but acknowledge that the data support but do not prove causality.
I tried not to bog the column down with statistics, but I do want to acknowledge that the data are not terribly reliable.
American officials acknowledge that the data was embarrassingly underprotected, but they also worry that a foreign government is accumulating personal information that could be used to cause havoc in the event of a future conflict.
Linguists acknowledge that the data are inexact, but by the end of this century perhaps as many as fifty per cent of the world's languages will, at best, exist only in archives and on recordings.
We also acknowledge that the information in data could be intentionally inaccurate, such as poster's name, age and even physical appearance (e.g. bra cup size, weight).
Winship acknowledges that the data suggests some relation between inequality and immobility — and, indeed, it would be surprising if none existed.
He read a series of statements of administration officials trumpeting the figure, and asked Mr. Devaney if it would have been better to have simply acknowledged that the data came from recipients and could not be verified.
Although researchers quietly acknowledged that the data were "inconclusive and contradictory" or "inconsistent and contradictory" — two quotes from the cardiologist Jeremiah Stamler, a leading proponent of the eat-less-salt campaign, in 1967 and 1981 — publicly, the link between salt and blood pressure was upgraded from hypothesis to fact.
