Senior Lecturer · Villa College · Malé, Maldives

Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin

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

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01 · About
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.

02 · Textbooks & Teaching Materials

Open textbooks and teaching suites

All textbooks and teaching materials

Quantitative Analysis with Small Samples

Published v0.1.0

A Practical Guide for Students and Early-Career Researchers

A published open textbook on rigorous quantitative analysis for small samples. Covers exact and resampling tests, nonparametric methods, penalised and Bayesian regression, missing data, and five worked R projects. Free to read under CC BY 4.0. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20221929

PublishedRCC BY 4.0Zenodo

Data-Driven Management

Under Review

Statistics for Managers

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

The Evidence-Based Digital Marketer

Live

Digital Campaign Strategy & Responsible AI

A Villa College course textbook (DMS505) teaching digital marketing as an evidence-to-decision system, publishing on a rolling basis: Weeks 1–3 of 15 are live now.

QuartoDigital MarketingAICC BY 4.0

AI-Powered Marketing Analytics

Proofreading

Applied Methods for Managers

A twelve-chapter marketing analytics textbook in proofreading, the applied companion to Data-Driven Management, covering customer analysis, campaign measurement, attribution, forecasting, and AI-assisted reporting.

QuartoMarketingAICC BY 4.0
03 · Excel Templates & Dashboards

Ten free workbooks for marketing & sales decisions

Full toolkit and all downloads

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.

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

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
04 · Software

Survey & statistics software

surveyframe is live on CRAN, an R package for end-to-end survey research workflows. StatChooser is its free companion web tool: answer four short questions and get a recommended statistical test with assumptions, runnable R code, JASP steps, and a ready survey skeleton. 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.

Live

surveyframe

On CRAN

An R package for end-to-end survey research workflows: visual instrument design via SurveyBuilder or SurveyStudio, static HTML survey export, Shiny module, response quality checking, scale scoring, psychometric diagnostics, analysis-plan execution, codebook generation, and reproducible HTML reporting. Powered by the .sframe format with SHA-256 integrity checking.

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install.packages("surveyframe")

StatChooser

Live

A free, static web tool that recommends a statistical test from four short questions about your research goal, design, data, and measurement level. Every recommendation includes the test assumptions, runnable surveyframe R code, JASP steps, an APA reporting sentence, a small-sample note, and a ready-to-adopt survey skeleton. Companion front end to the surveyframe R package.

Web AppStatisticsSurveyROpen Source
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.

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Full product preview on FlairMI
05 · Web Tools

Browser utilities for everyday decisions

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.

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
06 · Open-Source Tools I Use and Teach

Free tools behind the teaching materials

Full open-source tools guide

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
07 · FlairMI

Marketing analytics made simple

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.

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09 · Contact

Let's work together

Affiliation

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

Direct Message

Use this form if you want updates on new tools, collaboration, or teaching-related enquiries.

You can also write directly to mohammedali.page@gmail.com.