I was taught that data is singular when talking about a specific type of data, such as “the elevation data is ....” but “elevation, temperature and soil data are....”.
It seems to make sense, but never sounded right to me. But, in this case, ALL types of data are missing - so the “are” would seem to be correct.
But, I wonder if it is the same as money vs. “monies”. Where “monies”, from what I was told, refers to money from various sorts of sources. Such as “the monies for the research come from private, government and industry sources”.
What I would like to know is, where are the monies coming from that will be used so the EPA can measure the changes in CO2 data as they try to get it from 0.038% down to 0.025% (or whatever!).
G’day Mate! (Probably some bastardization of God Bless!? ;)
“Data” is the plural of “datum”.
“G’day Mate! (Probably some bastardization of God Bless”!? ;)
Well everything Aussies say is a bastardization of English. This we know. But G’day Mate is a a bastardization of “Have a good day my koala humping friend”. I tried to look it up in the Aussie English Dictionary but I couldnt find one.