Depends on your style but in mine data is treated as plural.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Dec 05, 2012 12:25:39 pm PST #3286 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
flea - Dec 05, 2012 12:26:07 pm PST #3287 of 30001
information libertarian
Data is technically a plural, so "data are" is correct. But a lot of people are vague about its plural-ness, and "data is" is also common, so that is probably why it feels wrong.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2012 12:51:57 pm PST #3288 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I got invited to be an external reviewer for some NEH grants. Is it compensated? Of course not. I am sort of getting tired of these pleasant professional honors that don't have any connection to me getting paid. Yes, still not employed.
I guess the idea is you get stuff for your resume, and contacts?
I was pretty damned close to breaking into tears in the office, so I took myself out and walked to a restaurant six or eight blocks away, and had a fried fish sandwich and a beer. So crisis averted, but I'm still upset, just not to that level.
And apparently Mom now is being all happy and chatty with people. Yay, but WTF.
Tom Scola - Dec 05, 2012 12:57:15 pm PST #3289 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Mom now is being all happy and chatty with people.
Hopefully a sign that things could get better in the long run.
Steph L. - Dec 05, 2012 1:00:18 pm PST #3290 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Data are organized" looks WRONG to me. Or am I just being clueless?
Our house style is that it's a plural word. To the point that "data is" grates on me terribly. (NPR, I am looking at you.)
erikaj - Dec 05, 2012 1:01:06 pm PST #3291 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sure, now that Suela's pulling her hair out.
erikaj - Dec 05, 2012 1:02:03 pm PST #3292 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't know there was a word for one data.
Allyson - Dec 05, 2012 1:03:28 pm PST #3293 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Does anyone here have any experience with org charts? I have over 170 people in my section, and in the section there are 12 groups, each with a supervisor.
What I would like to do is list each person with their group in Excel and be able to generate an org chart from that list. The org charts in Smart Art are for an org chart with like 20 people. If you have twenty people, why do you need a chart? Anywho, I've been doing these by hand, updating like a total chump, begrudgingly, every year. I'd update more often if it didn't seem so ridiculous. You can look up people in the directory on our intranet! WHY DO YOU WANT THIS PIECE OF PAPER THAT WILL BE OUT OF DATE EVERY TWO WEEKS? WHY?
Anyway. Anyone have any experience with making org charts?
msbelle - Dec 05, 2012 1:04:03 pm PST #3294 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Visio.
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2012 1:04:38 pm PST #3295 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Datum.
I am absolutely exhausted, feeling strained and irritated at people who keep getting things wrong (I might not know the right answer, but I know they don't either), and the torta was spicier than I wanted, so now my stomach is upset. I technically haven't taken a break yet today. Maybe I can sit in my car a little--buy some groceries, and then finish today?