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To score points with your English teacher, the data ***are*** definitely correct. Plural every time. (And so are the media, but that's a different story.)
But when the construction is less clear, the plural sounds odd to my ears: "The data coming in from the field suggest that we are going broke." Correct, but losing in the court of public opinion.
So you can be right...or popular. (Story of my life....)
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