Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin

Senior Lecturer, Qasim Ibrahim School of Business
Villa College
Malé, Maldives

Research, textbooks, templates, and open-source tools for marketing, statistics, and management education.

Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin

Senior Lecturer at the Qasim Ibrahim School of Business, Villa College, Malé, Maldives. This site brings together research outputs, textbooks, templates, and browser-based tools for management, marketing, and statistics. Current work centres on practical analytics, open teaching materials, and decision-support tools designed for direct classroom use and independent study.


Data-Driven Management

Statistics for Managers

Under Review

A Quarto-based textbook and teaching suite for management students and practitioners. The first public release is being proofread ahead of a planned June 2026 launch, with the book, decks, datasets, and Moodle-ready teaching materials being finalised together.

QuartoRRevealJSMoodle

Applied Marketing Intelligence and Analytics Using R

Work in Progress

A Quarto textbook manuscript for marketing intelligence workflows in R, covering data cleaning, text analysis, campaign performance, network analysis, web and search analytics, customer segmentation, and experimentation.

QuartoRMarketingTeaching Resources

AI-Powered Marketing Analytics

Applied Methods for Managers

Work in Progress

A Quarto textbook in active development on AI-augmented marketing analysis for managers, spanning marketing data, customer understanding, campaign measurement, attribution, forecasting, reporting, and a full case-study workflow.

QuartoMarketingAICC BY 4.0

Quantitative Analysis with Small Samples

A Practical Guide for Students and Early-Career Researchers

Work in Progress

A Quarto book on rigorous quantitative analysis with small samples, covering exact and resampling methods, rank-based analysis, penalised and Bayesian regression, worked projects, and guided lab practicals.

QuartoRSmall SamplesTeaching Labs
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Ten downloadable Excel tools for campaign planning, sales visibility, forecasting, segmentation, and marketing performance measurement. The full collection now lives in the Marketing Decision Toolkit repository.

Campaign ROI Tracker

Free

Compare spend, revenue, and ROI across marketing channels.

ExcelMarketing

Sales Pipeline Tracker

Free

Track deal stages, weighted pipeline value, and rep-level performance.

ExcelSalesPipeline

Revenue Forecast Model

Free

Build a 12-month scenario forecast with actual-versus-plan tracking.

ExcelForecastingFinance

Marketing Decision Toolkit

Live

A public GitHub collection of ten Excel workbooks covering campaign ROI, CAC, CLV, churn, funnel analysis, revenue forecasting, RFM segmentation, break-even analysis, and competitive positioning.

GitHubExcelToolkit
Full toolkit and all downloads →

The next FlairMI software line is in active testing. QuartoPad focuses on Quarto authoring, TrimWrite on revision and voice cleanup, and Ethos on survey workflow from instrument design to reproducible reporting.

Coming Soon On FlairMI

QuartoPad

Private Beta

A local, browser-based editor for Quarto projects with live rendering, chunk execution, citation tools, and dataset previews. Built as an R package for local-first Quarto workflows.

QuartoRLocal-firstWriting

TrimWrite

Testing

A revision tool for checking AI-like phrasing, flattening repetitive voice patterns, and tightening final drafts before publication or submission. Positioned alongside QuartoPad as part of the same writing workflow.

RevisionWritingLocal-firstBeta

Ethos

Alpha

A survey workflow product that links instrument design, versioned publishing, defensible data collection, guided analysis, and reproducible reporting.

Survey WorkflowReportingResearchAlpha
Full product preview on FlairMI →

Small browser-based utilities built for practical teaching and everyday decision support. The current collection includes Price Memory for local grocery price tracking and Margin Guard for promotion break-even analysis.

Browse tool source on GitHub →

Price Memory

Live

A local grocery price tracker built as a single-page web app. It stores item, store, price, and date in IndexedDB so you can build a personal price history and check whether a sale is actually below your usual price.

PWAIndexedDBCanvas APIVanilla JS

Margin Guard

Live

A single-page promotion break-even calculator for pricing and campaign decisions. It compares baseline contribution against promo-period contribution and shows discount depth, promo contribution per unit, break-even units, required unit lift, and expected net contribution delta.

PricingPromotionLocal StorageVanilla JS

R & RStudio

Teaching & Research

The primary statistical environment used across the statistics teaching suite and related course materials. It supports descriptive statistics, modelling, and reproducible reporting for classroom and research workflows.

StatisticsResearchWorkshop

JASP & jamovi

Teaching

Point-and-click statistical analysis tools recommended for students new to quantitative methods. Covered in the open-source research workshop series as no-cost SPSS alternatives.

StatisticsNo-CodeTeaching

Quarto

Teaching & Publishing

The publishing system behind the statistics teaching suite. It is used to produce the book, companion site, lecture decks, and related teaching materials from a single source project.

PublishingReproducibleTeaching

Zotero

Research

Reference management recommended to all postgraduate students. Covered in the open-source research workshop as a free alternative to Mendeley or EndNote.

ReferencesResearch
Full open-source tools guide →

FlairMI

Live

Practical, reproducible statistical tutorials for marketing professionals. Each post includes interactive WebR code: run R directly in the browser, alongside real business cases, decision frameworks, and sample size planning. No installation is required.

WebRTutorialsMarketingStatistics

23Publications
20Conferences
9Funded Projects
2026Most Recent
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Senior Lecturer, Qasim Ibrahim School of Business, Villa College, Malé, Maldives

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