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How charts land in articles

Tuesday 18 August 2026Data viz

This page shows the house treatment for charts and graphics inside articles – using the UKRI applications and award-rate data as the working example. The graphic below is interactive: pick a category and a measure, hover for values, and toggle dark mode from the top bar.

UKRI investment and outputs · 2019–20 to 2025–26

Applications, awards and award rates

Pick a category and a measure. The award rate is applications awarded as a share of applications assessed, by financial year.

Category
Measure
The data – award rate (%)
YearTotalFellowshipsR&ITraining
2019–2030222987
2020–2124222392
2021–2227192791
2022–2330312988
2023–2427272685
2024–2521242073
2025–2619181845

Source: UKRI investment and outputs data by financial year. Training-grant figures for 2025–26 reflect a partial-year snapshot in the underlying data – see the data quality statement.

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The workflow: ask a Claude session for a chart in Research Agenda house style (share the data or a source link), and it comes back as a single self-contained fragment – house fonts, the validated colour palette, light and dark mode, a data table fallback, the source line and the wordmark built in. In the Studio, add a Chart / graphic embed block to the article body and paste the fragment in; it renders exactly like this when the piece publishes. The full guide lives in SANITY.md in the repo.

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