Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for August 30, 2023

Or; the datum is in.

I agree but that horse has bolted, the fight is lost, the fat lady has sung.

That’s me, always correcting the words and ignoring the content. Makes my life pleasant.

I remember when data used to be the plural of datum. It somehow became a mass noun along the way.

Guy: “Know what else is in? Ashes. Here, you’ve urned it.”

Accept that people may make niggling mistakes in grammar. Bigger and more common mistakes make me question their intelligence. Focus on the content.

Data is a scientist, in practice.

Datum, data. It’s pretty simple.

Not necessarily a scientist; could be an editor.

Actually, as Stan Kelly-Bootle pointed out, the problem is not with is vs. are; the problem is with the word ‘data’. The correct word is ‘capta’.