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C11 / Intermediate

Data Recycling & Digital Salvage Methods

A professional skills course on data recycling and digital salvage methods, including rights and privacy review, dataset documentation, and packaging of a rights-clean asset. Course examples are instructional; no business or income result is promised.

A certificate issued by this academy is a certificate of completion only. It is not accredited. It is not approved by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (SBCCS) or any other state agency. No income or employment outcome is promised.

12 modules≈135 learner hoursSelf-paced draft
YOUR TAKEAWAYS

What you will practice

  • Apply a rights and privacy checklist (CCPA and the Delete Act, GDPR, FCRA, HIPAA, FTC Act §5, Ohio law) to accept or reject an asset.
  • Clean, deduplicate, label, and document a dataset with a datasheet.
  • Evaluate an unfinished app, repository, or SaaS for salvage value and risk.
  • Price and list a product net of marketplace fees.
  • Create (capstone) a rights-clean data product or finished salvage asset with a full provenance pack.
THE LEARNING PLAN

Inside the course

  1. 01The data scrapyard model — what is legally "scrap" and what is stolen
  2. 02Copyright, public domain, US government works, and Ohio public records
  3. 03Licenses — Creative Commons, dataset cards, terms of service, and software licenses
  4. 04Privacy law — CCPA and the Delete Act, GDPR, FCRA, HIPAA, FTC Act §5, and bankruptcy sales
  5. 05Sourcing — open data, archives, asset sales, abandoned repositories, and marketplaces
  6. 06The cleaning pipeline — Polars and DuckDB, deduplication with MinHash, and PII removal with Presidio
  7. 07Labeling and AI-training formats — Q&A, instruction sets, preference data, and evaluation sets
  8. 08Documentation and provenance — datasheets, license files, and audit trails
  9. 09Unfinished-work salvage — evaluate, buy, finish, and add revenue
  10. 10Selling data — Datarade, AWS Data Exchange, Snowflake, Hugging Face, AI-lab licensing, and pricing
  11. 11Selling businesses and digital assets — Flippa, Acquire.com, Microns, and valuation
  12. 12Operating the business — entity, contracts, insurance, security, and attorney checkpoints
TRY THE MATERIAL

A little of what is inside.

EXCERPT FROM THE STUDENT MATERIAL
A physical scrapyard is a business built on one idea: things that have stopped being useful to their owner still contain value, and someone who can sort, clean, and certify that value can sell it. A car that no longer runs still has a catalytic converter, aluminum wheels, a transmission that might be rebuilt, and copper wiring. The scrapyard does not create those materials. It creates a reliable way to separate them, to prove where they came from, and to get them to a buyer who needs them. Licensed scrapyards keep records of who sold them each vehicle and check titles because stolen cars and stolen copper are a real problem. The yards that…

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