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Re:“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore” by keithpeter on Thursday July 24, 2014 @10:59AM (#8079901)
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/data

Languages change slowly over time. I find myself using plural data when I'm talking science and singular data when I'm talking about hard drives. Hadn't noticed until your post!

Strange isn't it?

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Re:“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore” by bbgm on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:11AM (#8079977)
I have always used the plural data when talking about scientific data. Years of writing papers pretty much drilled that into my fingers.
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