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I'm Jojo Pasion Malig. I'm the usual suspect behind the night desk of the Philippines' leading news website. I like making interactive data eye candy. Mild prescriptivist.
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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.

WSJ style guide doyen Paul Martin answers if data are plural, or if it’s singular.

More good reads on the subject at The Guardian and The Economist.