Sentence examples for noun data from inspiring English sources

In a blog post last week by the Wall Street Journal, its style sergeant Paul Martin wrote: "Most style guides and dictionaries have come to accept the use of the noun data with either singular or plural verbs, and we hereby join the majority".

Other costs would have practical consequences: we are less likely to improve the comparatively low performance of the current nominalization semantic role labelling systems if we cannot learn to recognize when arguments are absent, and we are less likely to recognize when they are absent if we deliberately exclude argumentless nouns from our data.

In Latin, datum is a singular noun that pluralises as data.

Computations are done over the nouns, adjectives and verbs, after filtering out stop words since this worked better than using only nouns in our benchmark (data not shown).

American English considers collective nouns, or nouns that refer to a large group of things that cannot be counted individually (such as milk or data), as singular nouns.

AS I sat on a panel on language last week, someone delivered a familiar complaint: the use of "media" and "data" as singular nouns.

British English refers to some collective nouns such as crowd or data as plural, so it is appropriate to use these or those in British English.

Data could be a noun or a verb.

Note the word "data" is a plural noun.

They are most often (in this data, and probably elsewhere) nouns.

Data is a plural count noun not, standardly speaking, a mass noun.