The phrase "acknowledged that the data" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone recognizing or accepting the existence or validity of data in a discussion or report.
Example: "The committee acknowledged that the data presented in the report was accurate and relevant to their findings."
Alternatives: "recognized that the data" or "accepted that the data".
He acknowledged that the data on disease outbreaks from aged cheeses were limited.
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.
That said, he acknowledged that the data side of Skift's business is still early.
He acknowledged that the data used in the study was "imperfect" because it relied on reports from parents.
The Japanese games company has acknowledged that the data required "an hour or more" to download and install.
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.
Winship acknowledges that the data suggests some relation between inequality and immobility — and, indeed, it would be surprising if none existed.
