C4 / Advanced; non-degree
Data Markets & Data Economics
Explore economics of information goods, pricing & versioning, two-sided platforms. Work through applied exercises and develop a project you can explain, test, and improve.
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.
10 modules≈135 learner hoursSelf-paced draft
YOUR TAKEAWAYS
What you will practice
- Explain the core theory of economics of information goods.
- Apply methods from two-sided platforms.
- Analyze trade-offs in privacy law (ccpa/gdpr, ohio) & consent.
- Evaluate solutions involving synthetic data & labeling supply chains.
- Design and build building a data product.
- Produce the capstone: priced, licensed dataset product + valuation memo, defended to a human reviewer.
THE LEARNING PLAN
Inside the course
- 01Economics of information goods
- 02Pricing & versioning
- 03Two-sided platforms
- 04Data valuation
- 05Privacy law (CCPA/GDPR, Ohio) & consent
- 06Licensing & contracts
- 07Synthetic data & labeling supply chains
- 08AI training-data markets
- 09Market design & auctions
- 10Building a data product
TRY THE MATERIAL
A little of what is inside.
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDENT MATERIAL
Most of the economics you learned in an introductory microeconomics course was built around goods like wheat, steel, and haircuts. Those goods share three features: one person's use of a unit prevents another person from using the same unit (rivalry), the seller can usually stop non-payers from consuming the good (excludability), and each additional unit costs roughly as much to produce as the last one (rising or constant marginal cost). Information goods — datasets, software, recorded music, reports, trained model weights, course videos — violate at least two of those assumptions, and that single fact explains most of the strange pricing,…
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