The phrase "acts as a data" is not correct in English.
The correct expression would be "acts as data" or "acts as a piece of data."
Example: "In this experiment, the sensor acts as data that helps us understand the environmental changes."
Alternatives: "functions as data" or "serves as data."
In the manual data entering mode, NLIA acts as an object-counting tool, while in the automatic mode it acts as a data picker: picking up the data generated by Scion Image into memory.
It is used by Amazon Redshift, the service that acts as a data warehouse in the cloud.
The service registry acts as a data center that holds the services published by the different service providers.
This engine platform performs calculations and alarm/event detection, and acts as a data hub for synchrophasor applications.
In the platform's architecture, the city acts as a data provider which offers one or more relevant touristic information datasets.
The Lefdal mine in Norway's Sandane acts as a data center for some of the world's biggest tech companies, including a number of bitcoin miners.
The web-tool acts as a data-pipeline, designed to keep the machine learning models up to date with new forms of inappropriate content and to reduce the need for maintaining a blacklist of profane words.
Think of the Financial Transparency Act as a Data Act for financial regulation.
The registry may act as a data submission vendor, which has the requisite legal authority to provide PQRS data (as specified by CMS) on behalf of an eligible professional to CMS.
Clever's success stands in marked contrast to a similar enterprise called inBloom, a nonprofit organization that proposed to act as a data conduit for schools but shut down last year.
The late Steve Jobs's last product launch as Apple CEO was iCloud, which uses the Internet to synchronize data between Apple computers and mobile devices, but does not act as a data store and has been criticized for its lack of features.
