Hot Take: "Data are" is grammatically incorrect even if the guide books say it's right.

Water is wet.

There's a lot of water out there in the world, but we don't say "water are wet". Why? Because water is an uncountable noun, and when a noun in uncountable, we don't use plural verbs like "are".

How many datas do you have?

Do you have five datas?

Did you have ten datas?

No. You have might have five data *points*, but the word "data" is uncountable.

"Data are" has always instinctively sounded stupid, and it's for …

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