Special report | Economics
Are data more like oil or sunlight?
The question highlights the many different faces of data
PASSIONATE GRAMMARIANS have long quarrelled over whether data should be singular or plural (contrary to common usage, this newspaper is sticking with the latter, for now). A better question is why are data so singularly plural? That is, why do they have so many different faces?
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Digital plurality”
From the February 22nd 2020 edition
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