Meridian Analytics turns messy data into answers you can act on.

Meridian Analytics takes the spreadsheets and exports you already have and turns them into dashboards you can trust.

Example: An online retailer with eleven staff January to December
This year Last year

Fabricated demonstration data. Use the chart or table to inspect each month.

Demos.

Below are three working dashboard demos. The numbers are made up. Everything else works the way it would for a real client. The same reporting is available in Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, Excel, Google Sheets, or whichever reporting programs your business uses!

Meridian Analytics verifies the numbers before designing the dashboard.

2 weeksfrom your first file to a working trial dashboard

1 pricefixed, in writing, before any work begins

100%of the files and documentation are yours to keep

0new software to buy or learn

Services offered.

Start with a two-week review, a single fixed-price project, or ongoing support.

How a project runs
  1. A short note

    Describe the report that is causing trouble. You get a fixed price in writing.

  2. Definitions first

    We reconcile sources and write down what each metric means.

  3. The work

    Juliette designs clear views for leadership and adds quality checks that run with every refresh.

  4. The handoff

    Juliette trains your team and hands over every file with written instructions. The refresh runs without her.

Reporting Diagnostic

About two weeks

You know the reporting needs work but not where to start. Two weeks later you have a plan and a working prototype.

What is included
  • A review of the reports, files, and workflows you use now
  • A written list of what to fix first, what it will take, and what can wait
  • One working prototype of the view that matters most
  • A walkthrough call to go through both

Dashboard Sprint

Four to eight weeks

We agree on the price and the date up front. Everything is yours when it is done. That includes the documentation.

What is included
  • Source data cleaned, reconciled, and documented
  • Written metric definitions
  • Leadership views, with the supporting detail underneath
  • Data quality checks that run with every refresh
  • A training session and a written handoff document
  • Two weeks of questions answered after handoff

Reporting Partnership

Month to month, cancel anytime

Your reporting works but keeps drifting. Meridian Analytics keeps it current and catches problems before leadership sees them.

What is included
  • Scheduled refreshes and new metrics as they come up
  • Troubleshooting when a source changes format or a number looks wrong
  • A short written brief for leadership each cycle
  • A standing call to decide what is worth doing next

You pick the format

The demos on this site are the custom HTML option. You can host it or Meridian Analytics can. If your team lives in Power BI or a spreadsheet the same reporting goes there instead.

  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Looker Studio
  • Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • Custom HTML, like these demos

Choosing the format is part of the Diagnostic. Nobody has to switch software.

Team training

Included once per engagement; more by the session

Hands-on sessions for your staff taught on your own data where possible. One session comes with every engagement. More can be added to a project or booked on their own. Juliette's speaking background includes a 1,200-person keynote at a national special education leadership conference. She has also run a fiscal data training with eleven states and spoken for United Nations and university audiences. The full list is at juliettegud.com.

Session topics
  • Tables, formulas, and error checks in Excel
  • How to read a dashboard before you trust it
  • How to run the monthly refresh yourselves
  • A session built around your own reports
Pricing is quoted per engagement.

Every project is different. The price depends on the shape your data is in, how many metrics need defining, and how much training your team wants. You get one fixed number in writing before work begins. It only changes if the scope does.

Download the free Excel starter kit

A clean workbook that gives your numbers a home: a data sheet, a monthly summary that calculates itself, checks that catch mistakes, and a page for what each metric means. Enter your email and the download starts right here. You will also get an occasional note on business reporting. Unsubscribe anytime.

About the founder.

Portrait of Juliette Gudknecht

Juliette has spent the past four years working in data science and statistics across research, health care, and government. For two of those years she was the data steward for a federal education collection that every state reports into, where her job was making sure the numbers held up before anyone published them. She still works in federal data full time. Meridian Analytics is her own practice and runs on her own time.

Her favorite part of a project is the moment two systems finally agree and a team can trust the number in front of them. Getting there usually means writing definitions down and making the refresh run the same way every month.

She is upfront about timelines. If a project needs more hours than she has, she will say no rather than deliver late.

BasedSarasota-Manatee area, Florida. In person across Sarasota, Bradenton, and Lakewood Ranch. Remote anywhere in the US.

TrainingMS in Applied Statistics from Columbia University. Dual bachelor's in Physics and Data Science.

AvailabilityLimited project availability. One active project at a time.

SpeakingKeynotes, trainings, and workshops. The largest was for 1,200 people. Full list at juliettegud.com.

Tools

  • Power BI
  • Looker Studio
  • Tableau
  • Excel
  • Custom HTML
  • Python
  • R
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • CSS

Meridian Analytics does not take work funded by HUD or by the Office of Special Education Programs. It does not represent clients before federal agencies. It does not accept work that overlaps Juliette's federal duties. The practice is entirely separate from her federal employment.

Common questions.

Does the data need to be cleaned first?

No. Cleaning and reconciling the data is included. Finding out why two systems disagree is part of the job.

What happens once it is finished?

Questions are free for two weeks after a Sprint. After that you can move to a Partnership or run it yourself. The files are yours. Any analyst can pick them up without calling Meridian Analytics.

What about data privacy?

Working copies stay on Juliette's machine and never enter third-party AI tools. They are deleted when the project ends. She will sign your NDA. Say so early if your data includes regulated records.

What work is outside scope?

Nothing funded by HUD, nothing funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, and nothing that overlaps Juliette's federal duties. The full list is under About. You will hear about it in her first reply.

Email us what is not working, and we will come back with a solution.

A few details are enough for a straight answer on fit, time, and cost.

  • What report is causing trouble?
  • What data sources are involved?
  • Who uses the report?
  • When is it needed?
(813) 279-1982

Juliette replies within two business days and is happy to meet in person across Sarasota and Manatee counties.