"dictate data" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to something that controls or influences information. For example, "The new regulations are expected to dictate data privacy policies for companies."
The complexity of the problem dictates data integration from a variety of monitoring programs.
Whether it's attempts in Brazil to dictate that data must be stored in-country or demands by China to turn over encryption technologies and keys and source code as a requirement for doing business in the country, these discriminatory practices are impacting how countries and people access - and reap the benefits of - the global economy.
Then, earlier this month, the copyright office issued rules dictating what data Webcasters must track, thereby allowing all Internet radio services to fully calculate retroactive and future royalty payments they owe starting in April.
If this is a connected world where the economy will be increasingly dictated by data, then now seems a particularly inopportune moment for Europe to be fracturing as a single market.
It dictates that data has its own mass.
The current tide in education reform is dictated by data worshippers; they say a great job (or poor job) can be reflected in year-to-year high-stakes testing data.
There is nothing about the structure of MaxEnt that dictates unconstrained data dredging, but default use of all available climate axes in MaxEnt constitutes data dredging.
Identifiability of PK and PD parameter estimates for each drug was dictated by data availability.
Covariables considered were based on the PSSRU framework, model fit and parsimony of the regression equations, and also dictated by data availability.
However, we minimised hindsight bias on presence of predictors by dictating which data on potential predictors had to be present in all medical records and by personally monitoring patient evaluations.
