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by elinchrome 3820 days ago
If this was about the Star Trek character, it would be called "Does Data Have Politics?" Answer (Betteridge's Law): no.
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That usage would have been fine for the title regardless. Treating 'data' as a plural noun is annoyingly clumsy and should only be done if you're actually considering individual datums and need to refer to the whole. We don't treat 'information' as plural, don't do this to 'data' either.