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Discover LudwigThe phrase "three data" is not correct in standard written English
It is typically used incorrectly because "data" is a plural noun, and it should be preceded by a plural quantifier.
Example: "I collected three pieces of data for my research."
Alternatives: "three data points" or "three data sets."
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All BlackBerry e-mail passes through one of three data centers operated by the company.
The site's the work of three data scientists, Kevin Thompson, Bob Rudis and Alex Pinto.
They studied three data sets, which represent the records of 48,500 children and teenagers in England.
IN JOURNALISM, cynics suggest, three data points are enough for a trend.
"There were three data points on the economy and we crushed them".
IN JOURNALISM, cynics suggest, three data points are enough to pronounce a trend.
The study comprised three data collection periods.
Bahnhof's three data centres in central Stockholm do exactly that.
We used three data sets to validate our algorithm.
Fig. 1 Three data clusters containing outlying feature vectors.
We used three data sets for this study.
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