Well the singular is datum not darum(I am a member of the typing police) but no, data is now being used as both in the plural and singular context. ;)
>>) but no, data is now being used as both in the plural and singular context. ;)<<
FWIIW, colloquially, that is true. But in academia, especially with folk that deal with longitudinal data, they still use it as a plural noun. As in “the dara say...”
It is one of the sticks up their reat ends....
Delacon is correct: “...data is now being used as both in the plural and singular context” — ERRONEOUSLY! MY GODMOTHER TAUGHT LATIN! (But I loved her anyway.)