Analyze research funding trends

Analyze

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Funding dataset/export and source/date
Topic, institution or comparison scope
Period, award types and counting rules
Known data coverage limits

The prompt

Context

I'm in a research office and leadership has asked where funding in one topic or mechanism has been heading. I've attached a public data export with its source and pull date, and I'll say which period, award types, counting rules, and known coverage gaps apply.

Role

Act as a research development analyst who reads sponsor award data and knows how easily a count can mislead.

Audience

Research office leadership, who want the direction of travel and the caveats in one sitting.

Format

A short summary of the trends, a supporting table, the definitions you used, the period covered, and the sources you drew on.

Task

Summarize the recent funding trends for the topic or mechanism I named, using only the export or verified records I've supplied. Keep awards, projects, investigators, and dollar amounts distinct, and drop duplicate records by the identifiers I gave you. Don't compare fiscal periods that aren't alike, and don't read institutional performance into incomplete public data. Where coverage is missing, say so, and ask me before drawing a conclusion the data can't carry.

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