I recently attended an event where many of the other guests worked in corporate communications. A professor lamented that many of today’s students brought up with text messages and Twitter don’t write well. Another attendee agreed, noting that on three recent occasions she has heard people say, “Data are.” I chimed in, “What’s wrong with that? The word 'data' is plural.” That’s what my supervisor in my early days in industry at Bell Laboratories insisted. That’s what the copy editor of Creating More Effective Graphs said.
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